Famous quotes containing the words lee, jones, early and/or success:
“Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clarys Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (18691950)
“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You dont need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyanswhich is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)