Salt Lake City Quotes:

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

- Peter Sagal

source: "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

topic: Beautiful, Lakes, Cities, Great Outdoors, Salt Lake City

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Cities, Lakes, Tea, Salt Lake City

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

source: Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

topic: Heart, Thinking, Lakes, Daily Living, Salt Lake City

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

topic: Easter, Men, Vacation, Mongolia, Easter Island

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Las Vegas, Cities, Lakes, Salt Lake City

The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

- Mae Brussell

source: Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.249, Feral House

topic: Lakes, Israel, Cities, Armageddon, 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.

- Roseanne Barr

source: Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Brother, Growing Up, Wives And Mothers, Younger Sister

Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Cities, Lakes, Heaven, Salt Lake City

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Lakes, Law, Cities, Salt Lake City, Troops In Afghanistan

I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.'

- Nina Dobrev

topic: Girl, Book, Twilight, Other Girl, Craze

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

- Alain Vigneault

topic: Player, Lakes, Nhl, Great Guy, Joey

I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Source: www.scottlondon.com

topic: Growing Up, Believe, Thinking, Important Values, Appropriate Behavior

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

- Jane D. Hull

topic: Yesterday, Lakes, Flames, Salt Lake City

I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Source: www.scottlondon.com

topic: Spiritual, Lakes, Utah, Emigration, Salt Lake City

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Source: www.scottlondon.com

topic: Country, Struggle, Writing, American West, Salt Lake City

... 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

topic: Utah, Cities, Two, Latter Days, Polygamy

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Lakes, Cities, Salt Lake City

You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touché...

- Shannon Hale

topic: Men, Cities, Lakes, Aluminum, Salt Lake City

My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.

- Judd Apatow

topic: Dad, Hipster, Thinking, Beatnik, Salt Lake City

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

- Hermann Maier

topic: Lakes, Years, Cities, Salt Lake City

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

- Calamity Jane

source: Calamity Jane (2013). “The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir”, p.5, Harper Collins

topic: Summer, Spring, Utah, Salt Lake City

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

- Hermann Maier

topic: Lakes, Cities, Careers, Salt Lake City

President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

- H. Burke Peterson

source: H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

topic: Mother, Children, Cities, Salt Lake City

That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.

- Hayley Wickenheiser

topic: Team, Lakes, Cities, Salt Lake City