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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
Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.
— Chris Columbus
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?
— Evgeni Kostitsyn
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
— Sean Connery
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
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.
— Christopher Columbus
You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
— Columbus Short
When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.
— Mark Richards
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
— Lee Trevino
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
— Christopher Columbus
Be the man that holds it all together.
— Nocomus 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
his stomach as flat as the earth was rumored to be before Columbus discovered the truth.
— Lauren Blakely
Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.
— Jack Kruse
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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
Columbus Day is still a federal holiday despite Columbus never having set foot on any territory ever claimed by the United States.
— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
— Louise Erdrich
Columbus gave the world another world.
— George Santayana
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
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
— Christopher Columbus
I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
— Tamara Tunie
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
— Christopher Columbus
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
— Stephen Hawking
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
— James W. Loewen
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
— George Santayana
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
— Alfred North Whitehead
My reason for getting into the film business was a Spider-Man comic called 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' when I was a kid; it changed my life.
— Chris Columbus
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus
— Tomer Peled
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
— Jack Nicklaus
Columbus has the standing egg, Tesla has the electromagnetic egg and Magee has the irradiated egg.
— Steven Magee
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
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
— Christopher Columbus
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
I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.
— Columbus Short
Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
— Vince Vaughn
I just can't relax. That's my problem.
— Columbus Short
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
— Stephen Sprouse
A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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
Books lay on the floor in literary dunes.
— Chris Columbus
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
— Adolf Hitler
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
— W. L. George
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
— Margot Asquith
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?
— Pablo Neruda
The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.
— Chauncey Depew
Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11?
— Sherman Alexie
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
— James Thurber
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
— James Joyce
I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."
— Columbus Short
With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.
— 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
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
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.
— Lisa Simpson
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
— Christopher Columbus
I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.
— Bret Michaels
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
— Theodore White
Christopher Columbus
— Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.
— Garth Brooks
I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.
— Tom Robbins
I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
— Columbus Short
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
Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.
— Rush Limbaugh
With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.
— Columbus Short
be neither unduly credulous nor wholly disbelieving for the Indies would have gone undiscovered if no one believed Columbus
— Richard Stanyhurst
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
— Ethel Waters
Clearly, Columbus never "discovered" America, in either sense of that word. The people who knew it were already here.
— Gloria Steinem
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
— Milton Friedman
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
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
— Chris 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
Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams ...
— Christopher Columbus