George Eliot Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'

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.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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?

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

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.

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

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

I've traveled around the world.

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

So many voyages and discoveries without result, and attended with so much hardship and expense, have caused us French in late years to attempt a permanent settlement in those lands which we call New France, in the hope of thus realizing more easily this object

Since (by the good providence of God) a country in America is fallen to my lot, I thought it not less my duty than my honest interest to give some public notice of it to the world, that those of our own, or other nations, that are inclined to transport themselves or families beyond the seas, may find another country added to their choice