Famous quotes containing the words lee, jones, early and/or success:
“Any time youve got nothing to doand lots of time to do itcome on up.”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)
“Come all you rounders if you want to hear
A story bout a brave engineer;
Casey Jones, that was the rounders name
On a heavy eight-wheeler he rode to fame.”
—Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 14)
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Much of the success of life depends upon keeping ones mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (18671945)