Christopher Columbus Quotes

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

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.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

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.

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

It's never fun when we're in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.

The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.