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Christopher Columbus Quotes

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Christopher Columbus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: italian
Birth: October 31, 1451 - May 20, 1506

Topics

Gold World Treasure Paradise Wishes

When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?

Car Experience Travel People Believe

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Genius Translation Than Attempt His

I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun.

John John Florence

School Fun Mom Weekend Week Island

To be honest, after the draft, I'm always excited.

Always Honest Excited To Be Honest

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

Future Community Push Partnership

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

Home Fun More Been Would Hit

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.

Good Me Look Back Want Get

A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I'm like, 'In a suitcase somewhere.' Now they're nicely displayed in an ice rink, but medals don't really mean that much. It's the experience, the story of the skating, the love.

Love Experience Story Someone Ice

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

People Ideas Aesthetic Wonder Want

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Learning Gardening Plant Grow Skill

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

Time Depression War Spring World

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th Wave,' explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

Hope Believe End Better Short Wave

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