Famous quotes containing the words minister, mentor, yew and/or lee:
“Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
—Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For ... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“My silks and fine array,
My smiles and languishd air,
By Love are drivn away;
And mournful lean Despair
Brings me yew to deck my grave:
Such end true lovers have.”
—William Blake (17571827)
“Novelties and notions? What kind of notions you got?”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)