Louise Erdrich Quotes

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Since the discovery of Columbus, there has been no event of equal importance to the human race.

Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

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.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

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.

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?

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

America is now a space-faring nation ... a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered the New World.

Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity

Amusingly, Christopher Columbus totally bungled ... by relying on subsequent less-accurate calculations and confusing Arabic miles with Italian miles, concluding that he needed to sail only 3,700 km to reach the Orient when the true value was 19,600 km. He clearly wouldn’t have gotten his trip funded if he’d done his math right, and he clearly wouldn’t have survived if America hadn’t existed, so sometimes being lucky is more important than being right.

Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.