General Lee Quotes

#1. General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

John Brown Gordon

#2. In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

Fannie Flagg

#3. I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

James Longstreet

#4. Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

Maxcy Gregg

#5. General Lee, I have no division.

George Pickett

#6. A true southern lady can out manipulate General Lee when it comes to revenge.

Liliana Hart

#7. General Lee, if it will please God, we will kill them all.

Jeff Shaara

#8. I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

James Longstreet

#9. General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

James Longstreet

#10. You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~

Lee Strobel

#11. My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

David Lee Roth

#12. General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

Lee Smolin

#13. Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Lee Atwater

#14. You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Lee H. Hamilton

#15. Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Mel Ferrer

#16. I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Tim Berners-Lee

#17. As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

Lee Child

#18. From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.

Adi Godrej

#19. There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#20. I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

Jim Lee

#21. Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Edward Everett

#22. Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general.

Victor Robert Lee

#23. I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.

Tim Berners-Lee

#24. As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Robert E.Lee

#25. My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Rickie Lee Jones

#26. The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

Amos Lee

#27. We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

Tim Berners-Lee

#28. OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general.

Lee Child

#29. Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.

Clint Johnson

#30. General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

Robert E.Lee

#31. The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

Tanith Lee

#32. My father's people ... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Robert Duvall

#33. Well, as a general rule, most women, before they've got 'em, present to their men smiling, agreeing faces. They hide their thoughts. You now, when you're feeling hateful, honey, you are hateful.

Harper Lee

#34. There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Robert E.Lee

#35. Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Robert E.Lee