Christopher Columbus Quotes

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Christopher Columbus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

John Gregory Dunne

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Being able to tell people's stories - this is the most exciting job in the world to me.

John David Washington

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

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Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.

Amity Shlaes

FutureMenGenerationYouNostalgia

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

Stacy Schiff

New YorkYearYouNewTryLeave

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

Tommy Lee

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If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

Ron Shock

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Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Chris Cornell

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Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

Peter Bondra

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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

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As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'

Tyler Farr

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