Quotes: Columbus

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I’d rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember 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.

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

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.