Fawn M. Brodie Quotes

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.