Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Explorers
Christopher Columbus
Born in Genoa in 1451, Columbus lobbied courts for a decade before Spain backed his Atlantic crossing. In 1492 he reached the Bahamas, opening lasting European-American contact and launching the Age of Exploration.
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Christopher Columbus's Other Quotes
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely.
Related Quotes
It seems to me that we would be well advised to explore this land.
-- Leif Erikson
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-- Christopher Columbus
If I could, I would go further.
-- Vasco da Gama
We have traversed more than one hundred thousand li of immense water spaces and have beheld in the ocean huge waves like mountains rising sky-high.
-- Zheng He
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
-- James Cook
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
-- James Cook