People
- Bartholomew Columbus, younger brother of Christopher
- Chris Columbus (filmmaker), American film maker
- Scott Columbus, long-time drummer for the heavy metal band Manowar
- Columbus Short, American choreographer and actor
- Generation of Columbuses, tragic generation of Poles born ca. 1920, who had to fight 20 years later
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Then came the Lord Chamberlain with his white staff,
And all the people began to laugh;
And then the Queen began to speak,
‘You’re welcome home, Sir Francis Drake.’”
—Unknown. Upon Sir Francis Drake’s Return from His Voyage about the World, and the Queen’s Meeting Him (l. 5–8)
“Did you know, Putnam, that more murders are committed at 92 Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easygoing. Over 92, it’s too hot to move. But just 92, people get irritable.”
—Harry Essex (b. 1910)
“City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind’s eye the notion of a better life ahead.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)