Quotes about Pioneers

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. Votes: 5

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers! Votes: 4

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! Votes: 4

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper. Votes: 3

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. We gather here today and we call ourselves simply Americans. Votes: 3

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows! Votes: 3

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. Votes: 3

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. Votes: 3

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago. Votes: 3

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!) Votes: 3

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. Votes: 3

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth. Votes: 3

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces Votes: 2

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl. Votes: 2

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. Votes: 2

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. Votes: 2

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. Votes: 2

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. Votes: 2

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. Votes: 2

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. Votes: 2

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Votes: 2

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. Votes: 2

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done Votes: 2

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. Votes: 2

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape. Votes: 2

If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer. Votes: 2

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live. Votes: 2

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space. Votes: 1

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. Votes: 1

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers. Votes: 1

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time. Votes: 1

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it. Votes: 1

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. Votes: 1

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. Votes: 1

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time. Votes: 1

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. Votes: 1

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. Votes: 1

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic. Votes: 1

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this. Votes: 1

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. Votes: 1

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans. Votes: 1

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.' Votes: 1

The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow. Votes: 1

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. Votes: 1

I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant. Votes: 1

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for. Votes: 1

Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years. Votes: 1

Little sins are pioneers of hell. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices. Votes: 0

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. Votes: 0

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change. Votes: 0

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good. Votes: 0

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs. Votes: 0

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily. Votes: 0

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. Votes: 0

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side. Votes: 0

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing. Votes: 0

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God. Votes: 0

These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants. Votes: 0

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way. Votes: 0

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. Votes: 0

Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith. Votes: 0

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. Votes: 0

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. Votes: 0

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now. Votes: 0

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers. Votes: 0

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. Votes: 0

Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children. Votes: 0

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do. Votes: 0

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]? Votes: 0

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour. Votes: 0

A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work. Votes: 0

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live. Votes: 0

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him ... Votes: 0

There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams. Votes: 0

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. Votes: 0

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel. Votes: 0

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it. Votes: 0

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early. Votes: 0

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite. Votes: 0

Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do. Votes: 0

The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers. Votes: 0

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize. Votes: 0

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. Votes: 0

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good. Votes: 0

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that. Votes: -1