Columbus Named

Famous quotes containing the words columbus and/or named:

“If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, have discovered only the shores of America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
—Plutarch (46–120)