Should we stop celebrating
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day – the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America? Evgeni Kostitsyn
Columbus
Whenever I played Columbus,
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. Ethel Waters
You can feel as
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart
Man was sent into
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,–a Columbus of the skies. Edwin Hubbel … Read more
A great many men
A great many men – some comparatively small men now – if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When Columbus took off,
When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products. Edward Teller
For all mankind that
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. Edward Everett Hale
Columbus dreamed of an
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky. Edgar Guest
It wasn\’t the New
It wasn’t the New World that mattered… Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life – the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every schoolchild knows that
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . \”The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his … Read more