Top 313 Columbia Quotes & Sayings

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It's like a fishing village. My parents were hippies. They tried to live off the land, so I grew up in a log cabin, and we didn't get running water until I was 4. The next year, we got electricity. Then we moved to the city, Victoria, British Columbia, so I could go to school.

I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: Be careful.

I signed with Columbia for two reasons. One reason I saw two of Frank Capra s pictures in Paris, and I want to work with him. Then at Columbia, in Harry Cohn, there is only one judge to please. I could not face the juries of fourteen that I have heard about at so many large studios.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

The Snake and Columbia river system is vital to the Pacific Northwest.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.

I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better.

I am humbled and truly honored to be the recipient of The Key to the City and my own day by the District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

I did a year at Columbia, and I just kind of floundered. Maybe it wasn't the right place for me.

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?

I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.

The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia.

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when the crew of Columbia was killed. And I went through test pilot school. Rick Husband and I were out at Edwards at test pilot school together. He was the commander of Columbia.

When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.