Heber C Kimball Quotes

#1. Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.

J. Golden Kimball

#2. If you're not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you're building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you're not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.

Alice Bag

#3. Her face may be as smooth as an onion; but the beauty of a woman is in the spirit she possesses and in the principles of righteousness she cherishes.

Heber C. Kimball

#4. Every time the economy goes south, art grows. If you were an actuary or an accountant you'd consider those years horrid, but if you were an artist, you'd consider them magic.

Marc Spitz

#5. I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

Christopher Nolan

#6. God does not need just ability but availability

Ikechukwu Joseph

#7. It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.

Heber C. Kimball

#8. Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed ... And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation.

Heber C. Kimball

#9. There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

Heber C. Kimball

#10. Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed.

Rudy Vallee

#11. I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Douglas Carter Beane

#12. My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

Heber C. Kimball

#13. In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was noting unnatural about it.

Heber C. Kimball

#14. Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Albert Schweitzer

#15. You got here in the nick of time," Johnny said, grinning insolently at him. "I was just about to start ripping off her clothes.

Karen Robards

#16. I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

Heber C. Kimball

#17. The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away ...

Heber C. Kimball

#18. Half of sex is the dreaming

Sasha Grey

#19. You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

Heber C. Kimball

#20. If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Aristotle.

#21. I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh.

Heber C. Kimball

#22. I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

Todd Rundgren

#23. It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

Heber C. Kimball