Quotes About Frontier

Little House on the Prairie.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita—unknown territory.

If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages, not bases, and to do it as rapidly as possible, as it needs to be an immediate challenge, not a distant dream. And if some want to go to Mars or mine asteroids, they need to be seen as part of a new frontier community.

Bonanza' was never a violent show, yet it is set in an era when men wore guns and violence was a fact of life.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he's carrying a gun. This is one of the essential images in American mythology.

Feet The Hide and Tallow Men

Displaced from the Chinese frontier, the Yuezhi and confederated tribes evolved by the first century CE into the Kushan Empire, a state that combined Central Asian nomadic with Persian, Indian, and Hellenic influences, at the hub of the Old World land-and-sea trade routes.

His rear guard was destroyed in the passes by the Christian Basques inhabiting that locality. Among the slain was Hruodland, one of Charles's chief friends and lieutenants and the hero of the later Song of Roland. Later in his reign Charles was more successful and established the Spanish March, a strip of land extending as far south of the Pyrenees as the important seaport of Barcelona. Mark or march was the name for a frontier territory.

Newly conquered territory or districts needing to be kept in a state of military preparation for frontier defense, were organized as marks under margraves, or counts of the marks.

The Magyar invasion and settlement of Hungary had the important result of driving in a wedge which henceforth permanently separated the Slavs to the south of the Danube from those on the northeastern frontier of Germany.

Officials guarding the frontier between Russia and the German zone took malicious delight in harassing those wishing to pass. Since Marie and her husband were without documents and without shelter in a town completely strange to them where they knew no one, they could not stay. Nor could they return.

man's heart reflects the man . . . Proverbs 27:19 However, the spiritual world cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier, and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed. Howard Macey

Here at the frontier, there are falling leaves. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table.

Emigrant Gap. Califo

This is the only place in the whole Rocky Mountain front where you can go from the Great Plains to the summit of the mountains without snaking your way up a mountain face or going through a tunnel. This one feature had more to do with the building of the West than any other factor. I don't diminish the importance of the Oregon Trail, but here you had everything going for you. This point hasn't been made before.

It stood on the northern frontier of his kingdom, twenty miles inland from the fortress at Bamburgh,

At its maximum in the second century, the number of soldiers stationed in this extensive frontier zone

Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. —Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857

One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.