Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Ezra Taft Benson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1899 - May 30, 1994

Topics

DailyHappyThoughtsBlessedChoose

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

Jim McDermott

GivingPresidentCheckBlankPeriod

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

John Fogerty

MindSmallThinkingGuitarCheating

People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. We know a lack of sleep is linked to numerous forms of cancer - bowel, prostate, breast cancer.

Matthew Walker

SleepPeopleKnowUnderestimateUs

I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

John Sulston

ChildrenThinkChoiceDoneSayWho

We can help families buy their homes and invest in their educations.

Ana Patricia Botin

HelpBuyInvestFamiliesHomes

I was always a funny guy. I don't think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn't a funny guy when they were young.

Ron White

FunnyThinkYoungAlwaysGuyLevel

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

Rufus Wainwright

AlwaysCompetitiveBeenDadSomewhat

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Mary Harris Jones

LifeMotherGovernmentI AmMy Life

After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten.

Molly O'Keefe

FamilyHomeTreeMomStandChurch

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Chris Riddell

DogChildhoodLionGeniusMineBeen

With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004, when there started to be news reports on that.

Brett Kavanaugh

RespectLegalSummerNewsOutAware

You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

Bradley Wiggins

WalkDayStartWalkingChairYou

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