Top 84 I Am A Lawyer Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.
Liza Picard
#3. I am a lawyer, and I'm always looking for a loophole.
Ella Frank
#4. Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than
Tim Shaw
#5. I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.
Reese Witherspoon
#6. There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about a defense lawyer whose name is Samantha Brinkman. And I am reviewing speaking engagement opportunities.
Marcia Clark
#7. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
Rachel Corrie
#8. I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.
Morgan Freeman
#9. I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.
Rachel Weisz
#10. I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
Abhishek Bachchan
#11. The Truth about America's Silicon Valley-
Angels in the Silicon
Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.-
John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant
Richard Theodor Kusiolek
#12. I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.
Max Burns
#13. I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
Chuck D
#14. A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
Walter Lippmann
#15. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
Robert Redford
#16. Tomorrow you may look up and see me as a lawyer, a doctor, business executive,teacher - or WHATEVER I BELIEVE I CAN BE !My story isn't about nice handles or quickness on the court ,but about HARD WORK, PERSEVERANCE, and FAITH! I know God's blessings ,I can accomplish anything and i mean ANYTHING!!!
Jon-Robert Holden
#17. Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is.
Raheel Farooq
#19. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
Alan Page
#20. I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
Dean Smith
#21. Guilt," he said. "You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they'll take you under and you'll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.
Michael Connelly
#22. Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.
Felipe Esparza
#23. A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Marguerite Young
#24. I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
Margaret Deland
#25. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
George Herbert
#26. I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
#27. I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.
Cherie Blair
#28. Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.
Julie King
#29. Am I suggesting that you must feel sorry for divorce lawyers and prepare to pay every penny of their fees? Of course not! You deserve justice, and the lawyer can be lured into delivering said justice at a seriously discounted price!
Portia Porter
#30. One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
Anita Hill
#31. I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can't do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
Ann Romney
#33. Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN
Katherine Boo
#34. I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." - ROMAN DE RENARD
Frances Gies
#35. I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#36. I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson
#37. I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
John Grisham
#38. I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
Tom Glazer
#39. A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
Adam Shankman
#40. 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
#41. But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere. - My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
#42. I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.
Susan Isaacs
#43. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo
#44. I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
David Shapiro
#45. To speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.
Patricia J. Williams
#46. I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
Rachel Sklar
#48. On the stand, I asked the witness, "What's your occupation?"
"Make-up artist."
"Objection!" I replied, "Lack of foundation.
Natalya Vorobyova
#49. Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf)
You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who's worse, my Urian or one of them? At least we need the food; they do it just for profit margins. (Phoebe)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
Nathan Sawaya
#53. The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
John Marshall
#54. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#55. 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
#56. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.
F. Ross Johnson
#58. I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
John E. Jones III
#59. You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
J.P. Donleavy
#60. I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
Vance Joy
#61. The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.
Joan Juliet Buck
#62. King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#63. My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Paul Ryan
#64. Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen and
winking at a fourth on her way.
"I totally get why some animals eat their young," Pepper said.
Jamie Farrell
#65. Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.
Christian McKay
#66. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.
Jeff Ferry
#67. "What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."
Chauncey Depew
#69. Nurse: "You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet."
Joe: "I'm actually a lawyer."
Nurse: "My condolences.
Jodi Picoult
#70. Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
Susan B. Anthony
#71. You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
Chris Gardner
#72. Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.
Mason Cooley
#73. Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
Kamala Harris
#74. I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
Abigail Van Buren
#75. When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
Constance Baker Motley
#76. Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.
Craig Ferguson
#77. I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.
Arvind Ethan David
#78. A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. Well, Henry, if I were you I wouldn't worry", said the lawyer. "My belief is that your boy's born lucky, and in the long run that's better than to be born clever or rich.
W. Somerset Maugham
#82. I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.
Charice Pempengco
#83. My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
Carine Roitfeld
#84. A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."
James Keller
