Mormon History Quotes

#1. Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.

Robert V. Remini

#2. I wondered if he knew how he controlled my heartbeats.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#3. One ever feels his twoness,
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

Derek Bok

#5. Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?

Richard Baxter

#6. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Francis Bacon

#7. Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

Jodi Kantor

#8. So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Scott Anderson

#9. Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
"Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

Cassandra Clare

#10. The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".

Boris Johnson

#11. Losing of children had always been a thing that had to be gone through. There had never been any guarantee that conception would lead to a live birth, or that birth would lead to a life of any great length.

M.L. Stedman

#12. And what of my heart, do you promise not to separate it from my body by leaving?

Rose Gordon

#13. I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

Craig Finn

#14. You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

David Cottrell

#15. Simply because I have lost faith in the cause doesn't mean the training has lost all of its usefulness.

Susan Dennard