Fawn M. Brodie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Teacher #Retirement #Wall
“Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Success #Character #Curiosity
“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Passion #Government #Needs
“There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Gold #Treasure #Haunting
“A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Memories #Past #Men
“If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Fall #Church #News
“Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Party #Church #Relief
“But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Teaching #Climbing #Mountain
“... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

#Utah #Cities #Two

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