Chris Heimerdinger · 268 pages
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“Whoso should possess this land of promise, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fullness of his wrath shall come upon them.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“If it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance, and they shall dwell safely forever.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“Though I’m old and blind, I promise to put up a worthy fight. Probably kill half of you. No matter how harmless I may seem, you better know the blood running in my veins is that of a Nephite.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“Lamanite warriors love to interrupt any time a Nephite opens his mouth,”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“Nephites,” he added, “love to talk and find it particularly annoying to be quieted.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“Miracles happen all the time, Dad. But it’s not likely you’ll know about ’em if you’re not where the Lord wants you to be, and doin’ what he wants you to do.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, quote from Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
“remember one day, in the spring of 1848, that two men, Americans, came into the office and inquired for the governor. I asked their business, and one answered that they had just come down from Captain Sutter on special business, and they wanted to see Governor Mason in person. I took them in to the colonel, and left them together. After some time the colonel came to his door and called to me. I went in, and my attention was directed to a series of papers unfolded on his table, in which lay about half an ounce of placer gold. Mason said to me, “What is that?” I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked, “Is it gold?” Mason asked me if I had ever seen native gold. I answered that, in 1844, I was in Upper Georgia, and there saw some native gold, but it was much finer than this, and that it was in phials, or in transparent quills; but I said that, if this were gold, it could be easily tested, first, by its malleability, and next by acids. I took a piece in my teeth, and the metallic lustre was perfect.”
― William T. Sherman, quote from Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“He sits at the filthy bar and silently witnesses the change of watch from his will to his independently operating motor skills.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“Because one good thing leads to another.”
― Kevin Alan Milne, quote from The One Good Thing
“she decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“The Last Toast
I drink to our demolished hose,
to all this wickedness,
to you, our loneliness together,
I raise my glass -
And to the dead-cold eyes,
the lie that has betrayed us,
the coarse, brutal world, the fact
that God has not saved us.
1934”
― Anna Akhmatova, quote from Selected Poems
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