Quotes About Frontier

Louis L'Amour

Old Ed France

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.

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Jeremiah stood there alone, his big hands empty, watching his brother go. Zeb was the last of his family, and when his family went west they never came back. Linus had come back, but that was before Jeremiah's time. None of the others ever had. There must be something out there, he said aloud. There must be something out there that gets 'em. Then, half smiling, he added, Maybe it's the varmint!

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buckskin and maybe grabbing Lorna's bridle, too. It must have hurt when I flopped him into the saddle but he didn't make a sound, just glared at me. Taking up

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stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way

said, "went far out

There's a little cowboy in all of us, a little frontier.

you," Wildy said

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Voltaire had once said that it was a good idea for a writer to live near an international frontier so that, if he angered powerful men, he could skip across the border and be safe. Voltaire

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)

Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies,It's your misfortune and none of my own,Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies,For you know Wyoming will be your new home.

Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.

So the final step would be to invade Germany and create a new frontier at the river Elbe.

This would eliminate the salient and create a border roughly in a straight line between the North Sea and the Black Sea.

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put.

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.