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«I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.»
Author: John Waters
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
Christopher, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Columbus Day, fake, holidays, mail, Monday, Mondays
«Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.»
«What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.»
Author: Margot Asquith
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Christopher, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, mentioned
«When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella, Isabella
«Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
channels, Columbus, continents, czar, Empire of, Empire State, hummock, petty, The Empire State
«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Christopher, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Havana, skulls
«Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.»
«Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.»
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