Quotes and Sayings about Salt Lake City

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

We just have to be better. It's going to be difficult, in the playoffs against a great team, but we have to step up.

You look like Freddy Krueger face-f*cked a topographical map of Utah.

I love the American Southwest, for starters. You may call them Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah. I call them heaven.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Utah - and that's pretty much the same thing.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Lifted her gaze to the last telephone pole on the street. A mass of black balloons were caught there, snarled in the lines. The wind was wrestling to wrench them free, and they bobbled and weaved, pulling hard to escape. The wires held the balloons implacably where they were. She recoiled at the sight of them. They were dreadful - somehow they were dreadful - a dead spot in the sky.

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

We stole the Statue of Liberty! The small one, from Las Vegas. I won't even mention the Eiffel Tower - also Vegas.