Elijah Cummings Quotes

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

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.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

Being a lawyer, it's like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it's lovely to make sure that key continues to work and to continue to brush up on the law every so often.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I went to law school after college.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.