Lee

Famous quotes containing the word lee:

    When that kid looks into your eyes and you know it’s yours, you know what it means to be alive.
    —Anonymous Father. Quoted in When Men are Pregnant, by Jerrold Lee Shapiro, ch. 15 (1987)

    I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
    —Harper Lee (b. 1926)

    The President’s proclamation took the breath out of me this morning. He is in the hands of the Phillistines [sic] ...
    —Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)