More From Christopher Columbus
- "For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
- "Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
- "These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
More In History
- "The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing."― David Attenborough
- "It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again."― Audre Lorde
- "The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."― David Herbert Lawrence