Replaced Columbus Day

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

    Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
    Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)

    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)

    July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)