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)

    The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
    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)