Discovery Of America Quotes

Discovery Of America Quotes by Bobcat Goldthwait, James Joyce, Arthur Helps, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Hawking and many others.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Joseph Conrad
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen Hawking
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.
Thomas Paine
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply “Ours.
Vine Deloria Jr.
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The “discovery” of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the “discovery” of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
Barbara Ehrenreich
And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?
Mordecai Richler
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
Christopher Darden