Quotes About Frontier

PARIS, February 15 The fighting in Vienna ended today, the dispatches say. Dollfuss finished off the last workers with artillery and then went off to pray. Well, at least the Austrian Social Democrats fought, which is more than their comrades in Germany did. Apparently Otto Bauer and Julius Deutsch got safely over the Czech frontier. A good thing, or Dollfuss would have hanged them.

The Whigs portrayed Harrison as a log-cabin-dwelling, coonskin-cap-wearing, hard-cider-drinking frontier farmer. The opposite was true. Harrison was from one of the oldest and most prosperous families in Virginia, and his log cabin was in reality a mansion in Indiana.

Why had I always believed that a frontier must, of necessity, be a physical obstacle?

On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century a large number of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians came out, who, with Germans from the middle colonies, pushed out to the frontier, and did much to open up the western country.

These details are few and meager. It is not easy for us, in the midst of the luxuries, comforts, and necessities of a later civilization, to realize the conditions of western life previous to 1825. But the situation must be understood if one is to know the life of the boy Lincoln.

THE WILD WEST.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature.

People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil.

If you were to roam the world from the arctic goldfields of Kotzebue Sound to the pearl-fisheries of Thursday Island,' wrote Lowell Thomas when he visited the region in the 1920s, 'you could find no men more worthy of the title "desperado" than the Pushtuns who live among these jagged, saw-tooth mountains of the Afghan frontier.' Elliot, Jason. Unexpected Light (p. 56). Pan Macmillan UK. Kindle Edition.

middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction – don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.