Lawyer Quotes
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John Sergeant Wise
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Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.
William Pepper
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It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
Katharine Tynan
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If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.
William Jennings Bryan
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One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.
Cate Marvin
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If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
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I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I'd be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
John Grisham
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The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.
Roy Keane
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Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
Dave Parker
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I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.
Adam West
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Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson
Morris Dees
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Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
Megyn Kelly
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I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana Alexander
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
Maz Jobrani
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Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.
Anthony Robbins
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Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
Russell Banks
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Love has no place in a lawyer's office.
Elizabeth Aston
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My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.
Benjamin Clementine
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I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
Michael Riedel
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While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural background in a Third World country at a time when women were told what their place was and whose mothers enjoyed even less.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
Anthony Trollope
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There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft
Cass Sunstein
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Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
Janet Reno