Ronald Reagan Quotes

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

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?

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.

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.

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

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America"

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

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

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

It is but just and reasonable, that since you expose yourself to such danger to serve us, you should be rewarded for it. And we being willing to honor and favor you for the reasons aforesaid; Our will is, That you, Christopher Columbus, after discovering and conquering the said Islands and Continent in the said ocean, or any of them, shall be our Admiral of the said Islands and Continent you shall so discover and conquer; and that you be our Admiral, Vice-Roy, and Governor in them.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.

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

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.

There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

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!

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.

Searching and the route we take are more important than making a find.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

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.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.