Christopher Columbus Quotes
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Christopher Columbus Quotes & Sayings
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
— Christopher Columbus
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
— Christopher Columbus
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.
— Christopher Columbus
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
Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.
— Christopher Columbus
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
— Christopher Columbus
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
— Christopher Columbus
It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.
— Christopher Columbus
Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.
— Christopher Columbus
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
— Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.
— Jack Kruse
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
— Christopher Columbus
Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
— Christopher Columbus
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
— Christopher Columbus
People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.
— Rush Limbaugh
These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
— Christopher Columbus
"Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is."
— Christopher Columbus
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
— Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.
— Mickey Drexler
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
— Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
— Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
— Immortal Technique
If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
— Claudio Ranieri
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn?t know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.
— Winston Churchill
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
— Christopher Columbus
With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.
— Christopher Columbus
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
— Christopher Columbus
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
— Christopher Columbus
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
— Margot Asquith
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
— Christopher Columbus
You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.
— Lisa Simpson
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
— Christopher Columbus
I educate myself on the polar ice caps, vaporized long ago by warfare, and an explorer named Christopher Columbus who proved the earth was round.
— Lauren DeStefano
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.
— Sister Souljah
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
— James Joyce
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?
— Pablo Neruda
Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams ...
— Christopher Columbus
Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
— Christopher Columbus
It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.
— Christopher Columbus
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— Louisa May Alcott