Columbus Day Holiday

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

    These were the sounds that issued from the wigwams of this country before Columbus was born; they have not yet died away; and, with remarkably few exceptions, the language of their forefathers is still copious enough for them. I felt that I stood, or rather lay, as near to the primitive man of America, that night, as any of its discoverers ever did.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    All day I’d looked in the face
    What I had hoped ‘twould be
    To write for my own race
    And the reality;
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and
    like enough to consent.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)