A Quote by Brigham Young

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

Brigham Young

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Brigham Young
American - Leader
June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877

In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.

David Levering Lewis

My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.

Roseanne Barr

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

Alice Cooper

The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

Jon Gordon

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Nadia Comaneci

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Desmond Tutu

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Karl Kraus

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.

Don Blanding

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was geographically. I had visited once. I thought of it as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich, and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue. Compared to Pakistan, the streets are paved with gold.

Kumail Nanjiani

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Bear Bryant

You may change your profile picture to Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner, but you will never actually walk the streets the way they have, or systematically had your vertebrae stunted. So you will not walk that shrouded walk unless you're on the inside and you can occasionally nod at another on the inside and that acknowledgement can carry you for a while as it won't come from the outside.

Michael Salu

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Bob Marley

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Shania Twain

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

Dorothy Parker

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.