Famous quotes containing the words lee, jones, early and/or success:
“You see what youve done, dont you?... Youve committed the supreme blasphemy.”
—John Lee Mahin (19021984)
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
—William Jones (17461794)
“They circumcised women, little girls, in Jesuss time. Did he know? Did the subject anger or embarrass him? Did the early church erase the record? Jesus himself was circumcised; perhaps he thought only the cutting done to him was done to women, and therefore, since he survived, it was all right.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)
“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)