Chauncey Depew Quotes

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

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

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

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

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

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.

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

New earths, new themes expect us.

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.

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

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

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

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.

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.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

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