People get all worked up about Columbus Day. They think "Oh, my gosh, he came over here and wrecked everything for everybody. He stole land and killed the natives. Why do we honor him?" Umm...hello? Do you think we'd all be living happily over in Europe? Can you believe how overcrowded it would be? America is the Promised Land. Columbus was meant to come over here. Just look at 1 Nephi 13:12
And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles, who was separated from the seed of my brethren by the many waters; and I beheld the Spirit of God, that is came down and wrought upon the man; and he went forth upon the many waters, even unto the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land.
See! It's right there in the Book of Mormon! Nephi saw it in a vision in 600 BC!
So you can celebrate Columbus Day if you want to or not. It's a free country. Whether you like it or not, the banks and post office will be closed. But you can go on with your regular life...you just can't cash a check or mail a letter..
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The Quote Goat
If Life gave lemons that size, I'd chuck them back in Life's face, rather than making lemonade!
-Angela (said after seeing a picture of a ginormous lemon)
He needs a Binky.
-Emily (when baby George started crying at the hospital)
Ooh In-fin-dih-tee...and beyond!!!
-Noah Witte (spelled how he says it!)
HOP, TWO, FWEE, FOUR! HOP, TWO, FWEE, FOUR!
-Emily (copying the nurses in "South Pacific".)
Go go gadget Grandma!
-Brian
I'm pretty sure George's first words are either going to be "Get off me!" or "Leave me alone!"
-Angela
So, the Terrestrial Kingdom is going to be like an eternal single's ward?
-Angela (or Shauna, or Lori...or all 3)
Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a fruit snack in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you had for breakfast.
-Emily
I've exceeded my quota of crazy today. Can I go home early?
-Angela (said to my boss)
I funny!
-Rebekah (age 21 months)
If that song is the "Oklahoma!" of The Taffetas, can I fall on my knife after it's over?
-Angela
Hey, I'm not the tent person in the family. I'm just the comic relief!
-Angela
You can only see Bugs Bunny so many times before you want to punch him in the face.
-Shauna (Why she's glad that Elitches is no longer Six Flags)
You know, I think the Six-Fingered Man from "The Princess Bride" would have been a really great pianist.
-Angela
Those who can't dance watch Dancing with the Stars and yell out "Oh, you can't do that in a Foxtrot!"
-Angela
Angela, you are singing too pretty.
-Britni Girard (Opening night note for Curtains)
My heart is full of unshed tears. I fear it will burst at any moment. It's going to be quite the spectacular mess when it blows.
-Angela
Welcome to driving on the interstate with Angela. I can guarantee that you will not die. However, I can't guarantee that you won't think you're going to die.
-Angela
I don't like my hot cocoa compromised in any way. Chocolate with chocolate, dipped in chocolate...with chocolate syrup.
-Angela
If they came out with an iLife, I would totally get one.
-Angela (re: the new Apple iPad)
Wow! That was the Fall of Adam right there!
-Angela (after watching a picture of Adam & Eve fall off the wall before a Sunday School lesson on the Fall of Adam.)
No, Desmond will be fine as long as he has his bullet-proof milk.
-Angela (on why Desmond won't die on LOST.)
I'm not lost! I know where I am, I just don't know where you are!
-Mikeal Macbeth
I saw The Drowsy Chaperone at the Lincoln Center, and Angela's vocals were superior.
-Tom Jones (re: my performance of "As We Stumble Along" in UIL's Broadway Showstoppers)
No, you have to clean up because I don't want to.
-Emily
If there is no chocolate in heaven, then it might as well be hell.
~Shauna
The lucky people in the world are those who can make a ton of money doing what they love. The rest of us do what we love for the love of it.
~Angela
Hey, you're the Pirates of Cous-aunts!
~Brian
It's not "IHOW"--International House of Waffles! You have to get pancakes!
~Angela
Is it wrong to say that I'm so sick of hearing "Don't Stop Believing" that I have now stopped believing?
~Angela
I want to be a criminal mastermind!
~Tyler (age 4)
I want a wet willy!
~Tyler (age 4)
I HAVE TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN!!
~Brayden (age 2 1/2)
*You'd be like me in Curtains
*Oh, okay. Wait...would I have to shave my head?
~CJ Kelly & Angela
I think the perfectness for a picture up close is inversely proportional to the IQ of the person
~Craig (Re: taking pictures with the wildlife in Yellowstone)
I just want to put her voice in a cage and feed it seeds.
~Anonymous (Overheard at an audition)
Don't eat me.
~Rebekah (age almost 3)
Everything that is outside that isn't made of people is nature.
~Emily (age 5 1/2)
You can only speak in a loud voice if you are quoting Star Wars.
~Josh Nelson
*Where do you go to church?
*A moose
~Amanda & Craig
Last one to the table gets the Greach!
~Brian
*But we had dessert. We had Tootsie Rolls!
*That's not dessert. That's just chocolate.
~Angela & Rebekah
I wish the phone would ring so you guys would stop thinking.
~Dave Clark (After Jon & Angela suggested a coin-operated pool table be put in the box office.)
Where is my doohickey?
~Craig
You know my wife is hot when she texts me "Where is my gun?"
~Neal
If I was eating lunch outside at a maximum security penitentiary, I would have felt less watched.
~Brian
And the pig shall lie down with the cow on my plate, and I shall cover them in barbeque sauce. And it will be GOOD!
~Angela
We probably would still lump him in with the "little kids", except now he's licensed to carry a gun.
~Angela
*I want hot chocolate, not hot chocolate-flavored water.
*Yeah, I don't want chocolate tea!
~Angela & Steph
But why is Thor in it?
~Angela (after seeing the trailer for "Snow White and Hunter".)
Why are you occupying Wal-Mart? Occupy Costco. They have free samples.
~Ian
Can you say "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney"?
~Steph
*I might as well just put these directly into the couch.
*You might as well just put them directly into the vacuum cleaner.
~Angela & Robin (regarding the new Barbie shoes and sunglasses)
Since that was about your mother, that was the very definition of a Freudian Slip.
~Angela
You're dressed like a highlighter!
~Tyler (to Emily, who was wearing her day-glo green dance costume.)
I don't think Greek calories are worth that much right now.
~Craig Blackard
*Amanda, I don't want to be around when you birth your food baby.
*Neither do I.
~Steph & Amanda
No one would surrender to the Dread Captain Flower Pants!
~Brian
Angela Johnson is a joy to watch as Marian's mother with heart of gold (and an impressive Irish brogue.)
~Tom Jones (Review of "The Music Man" in The Coloradoan)
-Angela (said after seeing a picture of a ginormous lemon)
He needs a Binky.
-Emily (when baby George started crying at the hospital)
Ooh In-fin-dih-tee...and beyond!!!
-Noah Witte (spelled how he says it!)
HOP, TWO, FWEE, FOUR! HOP, TWO, FWEE, FOUR!
-Emily (copying the nurses in "South Pacific".)
Go go gadget Grandma!
-Brian
I'm pretty sure George's first words are either going to be "Get off me!" or "Leave me alone!"
-Angela
So, the Terrestrial Kingdom is going to be like an eternal single's ward?
-Angela (or Shauna, or Lori...or all 3)
Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a fruit snack in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you had for breakfast.
-Emily
I've exceeded my quota of crazy today. Can I go home early?
-Angela (said to my boss)
I funny!
-Rebekah (age 21 months)
If that song is the "Oklahoma!" of The Taffetas, can I fall on my knife after it's over?
-Angela
Hey, I'm not the tent person in the family. I'm just the comic relief!
-Angela
You can only see Bugs Bunny so many times before you want to punch him in the face.
-Shauna (Why she's glad that Elitches is no longer Six Flags)
You know, I think the Six-Fingered Man from "The Princess Bride" would have been a really great pianist.
-Angela
Those who can't dance watch Dancing with the Stars and yell out "Oh, you can't do that in a Foxtrot!"
-Angela
Angela, you are singing too pretty.
-Britni Girard (Opening night note for Curtains)
My heart is full of unshed tears. I fear it will burst at any moment. It's going to be quite the spectacular mess when it blows.
-Angela
Welcome to driving on the interstate with Angela. I can guarantee that you will not die. However, I can't guarantee that you won't think you're going to die.
-Angela
I don't like my hot cocoa compromised in any way. Chocolate with chocolate, dipped in chocolate...with chocolate syrup.
-Angela
If they came out with an iLife, I would totally get one.
-Angela (re: the new Apple iPad)
Wow! That was the Fall of Adam right there!
-Angela (after watching a picture of Adam & Eve fall off the wall before a Sunday School lesson on the Fall of Adam.)
No, Desmond will be fine as long as he has his bullet-proof milk.
-Angela (on why Desmond won't die on LOST.)
I'm not lost! I know where I am, I just don't know where you are!
-Mikeal Macbeth
I saw The Drowsy Chaperone at the Lincoln Center, and Angela's vocals were superior.
-Tom Jones (re: my performance of "As We Stumble Along" in UIL's Broadway Showstoppers)
No, you have to clean up because I don't want to.
-Emily
If there is no chocolate in heaven, then it might as well be hell.
~Shauna
The lucky people in the world are those who can make a ton of money doing what they love. The rest of us do what we love for the love of it.
~Angela
Hey, you're the Pirates of Cous-aunts!
~Brian
It's not "IHOW"--International House of Waffles! You have to get pancakes!
~Angela
Is it wrong to say that I'm so sick of hearing "Don't Stop Believing" that I have now stopped believing?
~Angela
I want to be a criminal mastermind!
~Tyler (age 4)
I want a wet willy!
~Tyler (age 4)
I HAVE TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN!!
~Brayden (age 2 1/2)
*You'd be like me in Curtains
*Oh, okay. Wait...would I have to shave my head?
~CJ Kelly & Angela
I think the perfectness for a picture up close is inversely proportional to the IQ of the person
~Craig (Re: taking pictures with the wildlife in Yellowstone)
I just want to put her voice in a cage and feed it seeds.
~Anonymous (Overheard at an audition)
Don't eat me.
~Rebekah (age almost 3)
Everything that is outside that isn't made of people is nature.
~Emily (age 5 1/2)
You can only speak in a loud voice if you are quoting Star Wars.
~Josh Nelson
*Where do you go to church?
*A moose
~Amanda & Craig
Last one to the table gets the Greach!
~Brian
*But we had dessert. We had Tootsie Rolls!
*That's not dessert. That's just chocolate.
~Angela & Rebekah
I wish the phone would ring so you guys would stop thinking.
~Dave Clark (After Jon & Angela suggested a coin-operated pool table be put in the box office.)
Where is my doohickey?
~Craig
You know my wife is hot when she texts me "Where is my gun?"
~Neal
If I was eating lunch outside at a maximum security penitentiary, I would have felt less watched.
~Brian
And the pig shall lie down with the cow on my plate, and I shall cover them in barbeque sauce. And it will be GOOD!
~Angela
We probably would still lump him in with the "little kids", except now he's licensed to carry a gun.
~Angela
*I want hot chocolate, not hot chocolate-flavored water.
*Yeah, I don't want chocolate tea!
~Angela & Steph
But why is Thor in it?
~Angela (after seeing the trailer for "Snow White and Hunter".)
Why are you occupying Wal-Mart? Occupy Costco. They have free samples.
~Ian
Can you say "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney"?
~Steph
*I might as well just put these directly into the couch.
*You might as well just put them directly into the vacuum cleaner.
~Angela & Robin (regarding the new Barbie shoes and sunglasses)
Since that was about your mother, that was the very definition of a Freudian Slip.
~Angela
You're dressed like a highlighter!
~Tyler (to Emily, who was wearing her day-glo green dance costume.)
I don't think Greek calories are worth that much right now.
~Craig Blackard
*Amanda, I don't want to be around when you birth your food baby.
*Neither do I.
~Steph & Amanda
No one would surrender to the Dread Captain Flower Pants!
~Brian
Angela Johnson is a joy to watch as Marian's mother with heart of gold (and an impressive Irish brogue.)
~Tom Jones (Review of "The Music Man" in The Coloradoan)
1 comment:
I LOVE Columbus day...when I was in school we used to get the day off. I feel sorry for kids these days! :0) All those tests and no holidays!! :0) Nate had the day off today...there are some perks to working for the government!!
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