Richard G. Scott Quotes

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

We're in Kentucky, dude. How many variations of Bevin are there? Many. Bevins, Blevins, Belvin, Belvins, I'm sure. Or Bevin even with an -eavin or... Bivin or Bivins. And we're probably all cousins if you go back far enough.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.

I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

Darlin'...I know what you look like when you've been kissed.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know the effort, I know the expense. I know the difficulties through which one may go to uncover one name. I know our Heavenly Father is aware of these efforts. And those for whom we perform sacred ordinances are aware of our efforts. Oftentimes, in a miraculous way, there shall appear before us a clear pathway through a field of turbulence.

I come from a long line of generations!

I'm related to people I don't relate to.

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.