Columbia Years

Famous quotes containing the words columbia and/or years:

“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)

“In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)