The figure of Christopher Columbus is one of the most important in the history of our country. Despite the fact that, to date, no one really knows where he was born or what his true origin is, Columbus is united by an enormous life in Spain and with the Catholic Monarchs.
Without them, Fernando and Isabel, the navigator would not have been able to start his journey to the East, which would eventually lead him to a new continent that gave Europe new frontiers of exploration, exchange and colonization.
The navigator managed, almost inadvertently, to discover a continent that no one had been able to reach yet, beginning a new stage in the world that became known as the age of navigators and that developed over the next hundred years throughout the world.
Today we remember some of his best phrases, and others, although the origin is really unknown, are attributed to Christopher Columbus.
Christopher Columbus quotes
- I don’t know of any sect, and I think they would soon become Christians, because they have a very good understanding.
- Some of them brought some pieces of gold hanging from their noses, which they willingly assumed for a rattle of these standing hawks and for glass beads: but it is so little, that it is nothing: it is true that any little thing Give it to them, they also had a great wonder at our coming, and they believed that we had come from heaven.
- Find happiness in your work or you will never be happy
- Here they found that the married women wore cotton panties, the girls, no, except for some who were already 40- ten, and eight years old.
- The sea will give each man a new hope, as sleep gives him dreams
- I have great hope in Our Lord that Your Highnesses will make them all Christians, and they will all be His
- Three hundred and seventy leagues from the Cape Verde islands, towards the west
- Never such a beautiful thing vido
- They love their neighbors as themselves, and have the sweetest speech in the world, and meek and always with laughter.
- Very well made, with very beautiful bodies and very good faces
- I think it must be Çipango, Japan according to the signs that these people give
- I do not know any sect, and I think that very soon they would become Christians, because they have a very good understanding.
- Your Highnesses believe that this land is the best and most fertile, and temperate, and flat, and good that there is in the world.
- This woman had a little piece of gold on her nose, which was a sign that there was gold on that island
- People could no longer suffer it: get away from the long journey
- And as they are these people with a very frank heart who give everything they ask with the best will in the world, it seems to them that by asking them something they do them great mercy.
