|
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
- Columbus Day Quotes by John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Columbus Day Quotes by André Gide
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
- Columbus Day Quotes by Vine Deloria, Jr.
He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Lamartine
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.
- Columbus Day Quotes by George Santayana
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Margot Asquith
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Edmund Arthur Helps
Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Edmund Arthur Helps
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Arthur Goldberg
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Author Unknown
He gave the world another world.
- Columbus Day Quotes by George Santayana
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- Columbus Day Quotes by John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Bobcat Goldthwaite
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Author Unknown
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
He gained a world; he gave that world
Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
- Columbus Day Quotes by Joaquin Miller
He stands in history as the completer of the globe.
- Columbus Day Quotes by John Sterling
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Lee Trevino
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Robert Orben
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Author Unknown
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Marcel Proust
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore
At the rim of a far-flung sky.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Author Unknown
He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.
- Columbus Day Quotes by John George Jones
Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- Columbus Day Quotes by James Joyce
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
- Columbus Day Quotes by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
More informaiton about Columbus Day 2009
|
