Abraham H. Cannon Quotes

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

Abraham H. Cannon

• Married
• Female
• Sealed

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• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Driving
  • Gun
  • Season

• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thoughts
  • Products
  • Whatever

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Present

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • More
  • Certainly
  • Mail

• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Science
  • Computers

• If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Team

• Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Decision

• It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Deep
  • Financial

• Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Creation
  • Group
  • Imperialism

• We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Believe
  • Laughter
  • Healthy

• A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Time
  • Long

• You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Friends
  • Clubs
  • Spouse

• I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Baby

• The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art

  

  Gaetano Pesce
  • Female
  • Economics
  • Invited

• I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.

  

  Warren Kole
  • College
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Relationship
  • King
  • Friendship

• THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

  

  Abraham H. Cannon
  • Married
  • Female
  • Sealed