Utah's Quotes

#1. The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.

Frances Beinecke

#2. In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.

Stuart Campbell

#3. I always thought the name of Utah's major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word "desert." But no, Deseret is the "land of the honeybee," according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

A. J. Jacobs

#4. I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Bert McCracken

#5. Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

David Letterman

#6. I can't believe I can buy a shotgun at the sporting goods counter," he waved back at the entrance, "but the safe sex shit is like hidden in this little corner."
"Welcome to Utah.

James Buchanan

#7. 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Bob Costas

#8. Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Utah Phillips

#9. We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.

Donny Osmond

#10. I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

Roma Downey

#11. This was the desert, everything all at once, whether it was needed or not. What survived had learned to save, live carefully, and keep a low profile, even appear to be dead for long periods. Perseverance and patience.

James Anderson

#12. How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

Edward Abbey

#13. There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. There was no black line between friendship and whatever might come next.

Rebecca Stead

#14. As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

F. Burton Howard

#15. When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Utah Phillips

#16. I was born and raised in southern Utah.

Ally Condie

#17. The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha, and in the Church. Indeed, the excess in Utah has usually been larger than for the whole United State ... there was no surplus of women.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#18. My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

Ira Sachs

#19. I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.

Terry Tempest Williams

#20. Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world ...

Edward Abbey

#21. In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

Steve Guttenberg

#22. For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

Karl Malone

#23. Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.

Utah Phillips

#24. When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and thought that I knew all about driving. It was Christmastime, and my parents were living on a ranch in Wyoming. I picked up my two grandmot.

F. Burton Howard

#25. The most American thing you can do is to stifle dissent.

Utah Phillips

#26. Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Utah Phillips

#27. I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

Calamity Jane

#28. All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

Bob Costas

#29. I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

John Starks

#30. I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Utah Phillips

#31. It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

Brigham Young

#32. Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

Conan O'Brien

#33. Buchanan's constant crowing about his great victory only added to the perception that he was a clown; a blithering buffoon.

C.L. Gammon

#34. The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

Utah Phillips

#35. I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.

Rick Majerus

#36. You have every cause for anxiety. we are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society. there are new times just around the corner

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#37. Utah is so wonderful. My greatest memories of Utah are of always being outdoors. It's a very athletic environment that I think gave me a lot of drive to be fit and live well.

Julianne Hough

#38. What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

Evan Wolfson

#39. Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.

David Letterman

#40. I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#41. You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah ... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

Elon Musk

#42. But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.

Utah Phillips

#43. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

Utah Phillips

#44. I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

Utah Phillips

#45. Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Stewart Udall

#46. If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

Abraham Lincoln

#47. One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#48. Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

Richard Benjamin

#49. No, 'Point Break' for me - growing up on the beaches of Sydney as a surfer, it was kind of the movie that we watched every week. For me to be Johnny Utah, I'm beside myself.

Luke Bracey

#50. In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.

Terry Tempest Williams

#51. It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

Utah Phillips

#52. Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

Utah Phillips

#53. Today was a good day for Hill Air Force Base and Utah.

Rob Bishop

#54. The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Craig Thompson

#55. It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out.

Darren Boyd

#56. Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.

Elana Meyers

#57. What it is ... is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to ... that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry ...

Jay Salter

#58. The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

Andrew Solomon

#59. Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

Edward Abbey

#60. I've had opportunities. But I'm happy at Utah. I can do a lot of nice things and I love the kids. We work hard and we have fun.

Rick Majerus

#61. While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.

Gemma Halliday

#62. Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

Utah Phillips

#63. Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central.

Trey Parker

#64. Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

Martin Fleischmann

#65. The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

Dave Barry

#66. My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

Katy Mixon

#67. The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.

David Roberts

#68. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

Utah Phillips

#69. I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Utah Phillips

#70. Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

Nicholas Kristof

#71. I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

Terry Tempest Williams

#72. Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go.

Utah Phillips

#73. A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah,

Josh Howard

#74. What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

Utah Phillips

#75. I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Wilford Brimley

#76. I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

Max Hall

#77. Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism,

Howard Zinn

#78. The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're
born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
which you resist is the degree to which you are free ...

Utah Phillips

#79. Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

Conan O'Brien

#80. As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

Jack Kerouac

#81. We were making good time now, barrelling through the bodacious curves of southeastern Utah and ignoring all impending signs of trouble with the van. At least I was.
"You guys happy?" I said.
The kids smiled at me like I was a dog chasing my tail, sweet but stupid, and looked away.

Miriam Toews

#82. I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

Gordon Gee

#83. The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.

Julianne Hough

#84. I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.

Donny Osmond

#85. Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.

Ruth May Fox

#86. Build me a cabin in Utah
Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout
Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa"
That must be what it's all about
That must be what it's all about

Bob Dylan

#87. Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Lynne Cheney

#88. While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies.

Jimmy Fallon

#89. Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.

Erma Bombeck

#90. Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

Robert Redford

#91. On Tuesday, Utah Candidate Mia Love became the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. She's also a Mormon. Yeah, a black female Republican Mormon. Even unicorns are saying, 'Not buyin' it.'

Jimmy Fallon

#92. There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.

David Archuleta

#93. I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Dale Murphy

#94. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Utah Phillips

#95. I think a sitting senator who's been there 36 years is not doing a favor to anyone in the state of Utah nor to the country.

Scott Howell

#96. Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

Mia Love

#97. Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

Utah Phillips

#98. We hope we have it contained. So far, it looks as though Afton, Wyoming, and Cedar City and Kanab in Utah are the only hot spots.

Marc Cameron

#99. I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

Joe Lando

#100. It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.

Jim Matheson