Columbia Highest Peak

Famous quotes containing the words columbia, highest and/or peak:

    “The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women’s broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I think I’ve been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.”
    —Mary Decker Slaney (b. 1958)