"Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and……" — George Q. Cannon
"Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre."
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George Q. Cannon
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21 Quotes by George Q. Cannon
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You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan…
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If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it…
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We have got to be watchful, for I tell you God has sent us here to test us and to…
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These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their…
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It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic.…
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I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is…
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If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless…
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Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has…
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The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the…
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The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly…
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The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the…
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After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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