“Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.” PeopleKnowsWorldWholeAmericaFoundLandYeahWestFlatsColumbusWest Indies Author:Bill Cowher
“I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day. That all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture on to a ship and travel to explore and find new lands, this is your day. It's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentMightLandShipsVentureTigersColumbusLsuDifferent DayColumbus Day Author:Les Miles
“Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.” MenMayLastsAmericaHeavenCan DoKnowingImpossibleSeeingLandHe ManBlessingCourtInvisibleSoilGrantsShoreNot KnowingEchoesVirginsMosesAbrahamSplendorBarkColumbusBarcelona Author:Robert Stuart MacArthur
“It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.” MadeHoursPrinciplesLandCivilizationTrialsColumbus Author:Chauncey Depew
“Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.” LandShoreSailingDoomColumbusSeamen Author:J. C. Squire
“This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.” CountryAgeHistoryLandMiddleEuropeVietnamMiddle AgesRebelliousColumbus Author:Graham Greene
“Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.” ThinkingMenYearsFeelingsCareWhiteLandThousandCelebrateNativeNative AmericanThousand YearsWhite ManColumbusColumbus Day Author:Carlos Mencia
“The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.” PeopleIfsFirstsAmericaUsedLandEmptyDenyInvisibleDefinedNativeWildernessOccupationNative AmericanArrivalsColumbus Author:Vandana Shiva