Jerry Brown/attorney General of California 2007-2011

Famous quotes containing the words jerry, brown, attorney, general and/or california:

    Dianne’s not one of the boys, but she’s not one of the girls, either.
    Marcia Smolens, U.S. political campaign aide. As quoted in Dianne Feinstein, ch. 15, by Jerry Roberts (1994)

    They killed the man I was. All that’s left is the will to hate and to destroy.
    —Karl Brown (1897–1990)

    I always was of opinion that the placing a youth to study with an attorney was rather a prejudice than a help.... The only help a youth wants is to be directed what books to read, and in what order to read them.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
    Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    I can’t earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It’s like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)