Columbus Quotes

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He gave the world another world.
- George Santayana

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He stands in history as the completer of the globe.
- John Sterling

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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.
- Edmund

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He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.
- Lamartine

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He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!
- Joaquin Miller

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

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

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He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.
- John George Jones

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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader and at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
- Edmund

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.
- Mark Twain

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Being lost doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. After all, when Columbus got lost, he discovered America.
- Catherine Rossi

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I am looking forward to coming to Columbus and helping any way I can.
- Brandon Moss

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Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
- David Ellis

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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn’t discover America.
- Louise Erdrich

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If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
- Sean Connery

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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
- Milton Friedman

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How often do you go to an exhibit and see something that traveled with Christopher Columbus?
- Carter Lupton

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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
- Christopher Morley

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
- James Joyce

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I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
- Stephen Sprouse

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May be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau