Brigham Young Quotes

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

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• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Day
  • Fame
  • Touch

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Face

• Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Nation

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Men
  • Me
  • Hand

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I love 'Fishing With John' so much.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Fishing
  • Much

• Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • God
  • Men

• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Men
  • Words

• Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • War

• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Art
  • She

• I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Art
  • Home
  • Father

• I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Today

• There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • World
  • Problem
  • Spirit

• We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Men
  • Fame
  • Nation