Famous columbus-day quotations

   Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at Nice Word by Author Unknown

   Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United StatesAsk any Indian Meaningful Quotation by Robert Orben

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Columbus went around the world in 1492That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course Good Quote by Lee Trevino

   When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."  Wise Phrase by Vine Deloria, Jr.

   One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time Wise Phrase by André Gide

   Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things Famous Saying by Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

   Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered characterBlessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul Nice Word by Author Unknown

   With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man Meaningful Quotation by Edward Everett

   He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe Good Quote by Lamartine

   Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science Wise Phrase by Edmund Arthur Helps

   What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it Wise Phrase by Margot Asquith

   The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes Famous Saying by Marcel Proust

   Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered countryThey soon cease to cumber; they fertilize Nice Word by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole Meaningful Quotation by Bobcat Goldthwaite

   Columbus found a world, and had no chart,Save one that faith deciphered in the skies. Good Quote by George Santayana

   Hardly a name in profane history is more august than hisHardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunitiesHis discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!  Wise Phrase by Justin Winsor

   When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."  Wise Phrase by Vine Deloria, Jr.

   If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock Famous Saying by Arthur Goldberg

   Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered characterBlessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul Nice Word by Author Unknown

   Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered countryThey soon cease to cumber; they fertilize Meaningful Quotation by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery Good Quote by Emilio Castelar

   He gave the world another world Wise Phrase by George Santayana

   What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it Wise Phrase by Margot Asquith

   Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination Famous Saying by John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

   Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge Nice Word by Author Unknown



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