Columbus Quotations

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one's even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It's a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

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.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

When I was a kid growing up and my dad owned the drug store, it stopped dead on Labor Day. That was it. People left, and you didn't see them again until Memorial Day. There was no Columbus Day, no Thanksgiving, no New Year's Day. There was none of that.

We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can succeed in places like Columbus and Salt Lake,

We know Columbus will attack with eight guys at times and defensive organization will be key (Saturday).

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

A great many men--some comparatively small men now--if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

She always stood up and said we're going to stop Columbus from eating up lots of the land. She helped a lot with getting Norton Road widened. She always said the roads weren't safe.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

Never in my wildest dreams would I think this would happen. When we started practice back on Nov. 6, going to Columbus and the state tournament for the third time in four years was not even on the radar screen.

Obviously, Columbus wanted him and it's nice to be where people want you.

I am looking forward to coming to Columbus and helping any way I can.

I feel that the most important thing is for me to continue to work towards being 100 percent healthy. My main priority and responsibility is to the Columbus Blue Jackets and I don't believe participating in the Olympics, which is a short, intense tournament, would be the best thing to do.

I don't think it is appropriate to delay my decision about the Olympics any further. As much as I would enjoy representing my country in Italy, I'm afraid that at this point in the season my focus has to remain with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

He's become an institution in Columbus and at CSU.

What impresses me about Columbus is that they have been a single township government body for 150 years and they've had building and zoning ordinances for almost 50 years. They didn't need to do this until recently in terms of their long history.

We've done the same (offensive) things the last eight years, but we didn't run our base plays very well, ... That's unusual and a little disheartening. Personally, for me as a coach, Columbus Lakeview deserves to win because they've had a number of times in the last few years where they really had us on the ropes and we'd come out on the right end.

What we wanted to do from the outset to build this film up to create a powerful momentum has happened right on time. We wanted to peak this weekend so we could (drop) Columbus Day weekend when you've got the big guys 'Intolerable Cruelty,' 'Kill Bill' and 'Mystic River' facing us. I think we can fare very formidably against that competition.

I think it's going to be a pretty exciting dual. Columbus is a very talented team. It should be a pretty good battle.

It could be better, ... I think, obviously, there's a huge distinction between opportunities in north Columbus and opportunities in south Columbus. I think that's a problem. This city has one of the largest military posts in the world, so (the job market) should be a lot better than what it is.

I tip my hat to Columbus Grove, they were too good up front. They handled us on both sides of the ball, they won the battle of the trenches.

I thought Columbus probably should have won. I don't know if a prayer was answered, but our kids don't quit.

I think we learned a little bit ourselves today. Hopefully, the kids are starting to learn how they win matches. I think the kids enjoyed it. The competition with Columbus North was pretty good.

It has been awesome for me (at Boise State)...at the same time, Christopher Columbus set sail once, and everyone said he was crazy. Coach (Petersen) does things the right way and he cares about the kids. That makes it easier for me (to move on).

I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south.

I saw them play Columbus and I was impressed with both teams. I was concerned with their overall team speed and quickness. They have some nice athletes.

People are starting to realize that the economy of the Columbus metropolitan area has been at a standstill for the past 18 months.

Marshfield Columbus has a very good team. Our keeper had a good game and I am proud of the way that we continued to play hard all the way to the end.

I would invite members of the community to go to Columbus and talk to the legislators about funding the schools. When I was a private citizen, I went there and spoke to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee.

We have our work cut out for us. We've done this for many years and used to go to Columbus to play bigger programs with a lot Division I athletes and always held our own. We'll see what happens.

We're desperately anxious to get Columbus up. Having 10 tons of hardware sitting around in Bremen, or even in Florida, doesn't do a lot for you.

We're a few miles out of New Orleans, about the distance from Lima to Columbus Grove. It's not far, but every mile counts when you're talking about flooding.

We are thrilled to be working with Window Rock with and after our recent Columbus deal, we have first hand knowledge they are honest and sincere about developing profitable real estate projects.

You know, I thought we might end up third. We knew Columbus and New London were the two teams we'd have to beat going in.

We aren't worried about winning a championship for Columbus. We don't care about the other teams. We are only worried about winning for Kendrick High School. Hopefully, we can win a couple more games and bring Kendrick back a championship. A lot of people in Columbus don't want us to win.

We formed (the band) in Athens, (Ohio) but we have lived in Columbus longer than we were in Athens. We definitely consider ourselves a Columbus band.

We didn't do what we usually do. Columbus had its legs early and they brought it to us.

We didn't shoot well from the free throw line and I don't think we had a team execute like Marshfield Columbus did against us all year. In the first half they were executing their offense very well and we were able to maintain our focus and composure just enough to get them off rhythm a little bit. Once we did, I thought our guys really sensed it and they pounced on it pretty good.

We sent Lifeline of Ohio a photograph of Bill a few years ago. But we had never been able to see the quilt, as it was always displayed in Columbus or another location. We were very grateful to be able to finally see the quilt with Bill's photo on it.

We're ecstatic that we got there, but we're not satisfied with just getting there. We want to win. ... We want to represent Columbus well and bring Columbus hockey into the limelight.

Trading is rather quiet this week because of Columbus Day and the Jewish holidays. You often see big swings in prices when the volume is low. Also, gasoline is close to $1.80, which is probably a little overboard in spite of the fall in demand.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

The conversion of the existing plant will provide for the retention of a skilled and experienced group of employees, thereby avoiding a plant closing and the loss of well-paid jobs in the Columbus community,

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

We pay our property taxes and buy our license plates in David City and that's about it. We do go to Bellwood occasionally for a steak, but from where we live Columbus is very convenient.

With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.

This reminded me of April and a playoff atmosphere. It's early, but we've got Columbus Monday, and you need games like tonight to prepare for your region games.

We were told this morning that Columbus has reassigned him. He would have been on a plane right now except he has an inner ear infection and it will take two days before he can fly.

There are a lot of things that have been happening in Central Ohio and in our market, and even within our industry. With the Columbus Blue Jackets, the NHL went on strike but they came back strong. We've got a new Arena Football team here. The Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees has got a new stadium coming up here in Columbus. There are a lot of factors that I think contribute to why we're taking this sort of approach and this mentality. Mostly it's that we think it's the right thing to do. It's the type of brand that we want to be and I don't know that that has actually been the case in the past." ()

Without question, this company should do away with Columbus Circle.

We already have a buy-in from the city of Columbus and a buy-in from a lot of residents and businesses in the neighborhood.

This weekend is going to be kind of special. Some of my cousins are from the Columbus area so I'm going to have a pretty large crowd.

We want to do something there. We want to prove that Columbus hockey is a lot better than people in Cleveland think. ... We want to show how much Columbus hockey is improving. We want to prove that Cleveland doesn't have the only good hockey teams.

To get to Columbus is nice, but I just don't want to get there. I want to finish this out.

We've probably lost about five key players from the teams we were successful with, but we still have a lot of our nucleus together. I think teams like Nashville and Columbus are going to be closer to us with the new CBA. But I still think we have the potential to compete for the conference title and if you're doing that, you've got a chance to reach the goals everyone around here has for this franchise.

We certainly know a lot about them and they know a lot about us. It's nice to have an all-Columbus (district) final. That guarantees a Columbus team will get (to state). ... We've had success against them this year, but we know they have a good team. But we're more concerned about ourselves. Our focus is on what we need to do.

We scored twice on defense and I am real pleased with that. We wish good luck to Spencerville and our kids now look forward to meeting Columbus Grove.

Every game is there to be won. This is our first opportunity. We'll be keen and I'm sure Columbus will be keen. So we'll want to win the first one, the second one and the 16th one.

Every day now in Columbus it's just a little more personal. It's been a rough day with a lot of tension.

(Earlier this season), when we came back from the Hall of Fame tournament after losing to Lebanon by 13 and Columbus East by nine, we had to do something. We spent the next three days at practice taking charges and diving for loose balls. These kneepads were a statement that no one was going to play harder than Castle.

Following a comprehensive, top-to-bottom review of the 2003 season with our ownership group, we are pleased to announce that Greg and Robert will be Crew coaches for the 2004 season. We continue to believe that they are well-suited to lead the Columbus Crew and provide us the greatest opportunity to succeed at this time.

There's not another like it. This building is truly an expression of what the Columbus Police Division needed, and what its training is all about.

The trend, though, in Columbus is picking up over the last few months.

It was the opportunity to see high school football and see the stands full. I'm not saying that Columbus doesn't play good high school football. But Valdosta is a traditional powerhouse and was ranked No. 2 in the state.

People who go shopping on Columbus Boulevard look at the ship and wonder, 'What's that piece of junk?' I want them to know that it was as big as the Statue of Liberty. I want them to know what an American icon it was.

Our family has come together to launch this incredible program in the Columbus area, and we are dedicated to upholding the high standards of child care as an accredited Primrose School.

Our expectations were higher than what happened here. We weren't up to snuff today but it has been a good season. Columbus Junction has a good team but I felt like we did not show the desire to wrestle to our ability.

That's no disrespect to Columbus there's a lot of great teams up there. But Southwest Ohio is just getting better and better. By going to Columbus, you don't have to see some teams three or four times.

This is not for expansion. Columbus keeps cutting its local government funding and if we do nothing, it will be hard not to lay off safety forces. We have to think ahead rather than waiting for a new gubernatorial administration and falling too far behind.

There's always room for work, no matter what. Going into Columbus isn't going to be an easy trip.

As you get down to the last six or seven games, the points are very important. We knew it would be a real dogfight, a battle, with a team like Columbus coming at us. Getting the first goal was very important for us.

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

It is our hope that students, faculty and people from the Columbus community will feel free to wander in and see all or part of a movie. In addition, several classes have been scheduled to watch a couple of the movies and all who attend can benefit from the remarks from expert faculty who will be giving an overview of several of the works.

It's an unfortunate situation and our district has already made two trips to Columbus to meet with legislators, but all that doesn't help us now,

It's a real advantage. It's a drain on young kids to travel. They don't eat regularly and don't sleep regularly. (Holding the state tournament in Columbus is a) tremendous advantage.

It's a little piece of ecological heaven on the Columbus campus.

It's not necessary that I be there right now. If I were to show up and pull out a statement, then it would be all about me, and I'm not the issue. Columbus Day is the issue.

It's normal for our buses and bags to be inspected. That's the times we live in. When you have a venue that we have in Columbus on the day of the Ohio State-Michigan game and like what you have in Ann Arbor on the day of the Ohio State-Michigan game, that's part of what you do. We regret if there were any surprises a year ago. They weren't intended.

It's the same thing I've said about this conference since I've been at Columbus State. It's really anybody's game. It's not a given against anybody that you play. Every day is a whole new day. I guess that's the best thing if you're not doing well and not so good if you're doing well.

It's like Christopher Columbus has finally discovered India.

It's been awesome for me. I'm very fond of my time here. At the same time Christopher Columbus set sail once and people thought he was crazy. Sometimes in your life you have to be able to do that a little bit, and that's what I'm doing.

That's something we can't control. Columbus had one of the best records in the league the second half of the season. We feel good about what we accomplished during the regular season. Now everything counts, and we're playing for real.

It'll be nice to be able to stay here for tournaments. We usually have to go to Columbus or Montgomery because there are not enough courts or they aren't nice enough.