Quotes About Frontier

We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.

One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-conflicted countries - is that it has long enjoyed a benefit no other modern nation in the world could claim: the ability to engage in ceaseless, endless movement outward.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

very difficult to cross, and there are still problems with the Indians from time to time. There are the renegade bands to contend with." Adrian nodded and fixed her with an intense gaze. "There are troubles, to be sure, but the railroad is going to change your world, Miss Gallatin.

This was the far western end of the frontier, which is marked by a tall, rust-colored, iron-slatted fence—paralleling an older, lower fence—blistered with corrosion, which extends below the tidemark, its end sunk in the Pacific Ocean.

A river is an appropriate frontier. Water is neutral and in its impartial winding makes the national boundary look like an act of God.—OPE

But curious to see the fence, I drove to the Rio Grande Valley, south to Harlingen, over to McAllen, and down Twenty-Third Street to International Boulevard and the frontier at Hidalgo, where the thing was obvious, ugly, and unambiguous.

I decided to drive straight to Tijuana to make a slow, uninterrupted traverse of the entire frontera, a road trip from west to east, San Ysidro, California, to Brownsville, Texas, which was also Tijuana to Matamoros, zigzagging from the United States to Mexico and back, from one border town to the other.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

saying something in German, then at the mountain man's

William W. Johnstone

Fur trade's damn near gone; pilgrims pourin' in over the trails me and all the others opened up. Hate to see it. Why, I seen five white people just last month. Five! Gettin' so's a body can't even be alone no more.

Those Mormons had sure been bottle slingers!

Sixkiller, U.S. Marshal

The strongest element behind the American effort had been the small farmers from the inland frontier districts. It was they who had supplied the men for the Army and who had in most of the states refashioned the several constitutions on democratic lines.

I look like a watermelon with a great slice hacked out. I say to myself, it's just another border post on the frontier between medicine and greengrocery; growths and tumour seem always to be described as "the size of a plum" or "the size of a grapefruit".

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

Dang it, Chance. You been here one day and you killed a man and split another one's skull open. I got enough to do without you adding more work. Chance kept his tone level. He drew on me. Why were you over in the Badlands in the first place? You know why. Bowie glared, then lowered his voice. Think you can get through a day without killing someone? Don't know. It's early yet.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

As successive terminal moraines result form successive glaciations, so each frontier leaves its traces behind it, and when it becomes a settled area the region still partakes of the frontier characteristics. Thus the advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines."

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

Charley Utter & Wild Bill Hickock approach Deadwood… … following the Whitewood Creek, & where things widened enough for a town sign, that was Deadwood. "How's it look to you?" Bill said. "Like something out of the Bible," Charley said. "What part of the Bible?" Bill said, when they were alone again. "Where God got angry" Charley said.