Replaced Columbus Day

Famous quotes containing the words replaced, columbus and/or day:

“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

“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)

“He might begin the Day of Judgement, but he would probably find himself in the dock long before it was over.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)