Quotes About Frontier

One of the most stubborn myths of American history is the idea that the frontier promoted equality of material condition.

The ambitious and restless, the poor and desperate, the gullible, the land hungry, the exile from oppression, the start-over dreamer, the Go West! hothead, the get-rich-quick drifter--all were spellbound by the mystique of Dakota in the 1880s.

No matter how fast our ships can go, space is still very big.

It was difficult to define an outlaw in a country where there was no law.

Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole

Grant that on this voyage we may frequently kill bears, as they may be crossing the Scioto and Sandusky.

I've rode o'er hot, dry deserts And over mountains tall I believed in the bad land sayin' "A good gun never falls"

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

I realised that the moon was not a safe place. It knew a thousand ways to kill you if you were stupid, if you were careless, if you were lazy, but the real danger was the people around you. The moon was not a world, it was a submarine. Outside was death. I would be sealed in with these people. There was no law, no justice: there was only management. The moon was the frontier, but it was the frontier to nothing. There was nowhere to run.

The time has come to explore beyond all we know.

The frontier between your taste and mine is invisible; you will never be able to grasp it, proof that the frontier itself does not exist.

As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.

the west the best ...

They who came to California were not the self-satisfied, happy and content people, but the adventurous, the restless, and the daring. They were different even from those who settled in other western states. They didn't come west for homes and security, but for adventure and money. They pushed in over the mountains and founded the biggest cities in the west.

Did not the Donner-Reed Party, after all, eat its own dead to reach Sacramento?

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Utmost [farthest] Thule.

In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

The biggest frontier opens up in front of us and rather than be afraid of it, we should go forward with courage.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

Death and worse happened on the plains.

There is a huge new frontier awaiting our exploration, and it is not the macrocosm of the universe but the microcosm of the mind.

The Wall at the Edge of the World Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph I.

Two of our number now commenced work as tailors in the village of Independence," wrote Parley P. Pratt, "while the others crossed the frontier line and commenced a mission among the Lamanites.