America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.
If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
I can never quite decide whether the anti- Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. . . . It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.
Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money.
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don't know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it's stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn't even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.
