Quotes About Frontier

The CDF doesn't operate on-planet

Sorvalh stopped walking and stood calmly at the frontier of the colony of Deliverance.

Possibly the symbol for America is the Frontier† The corresponding symbol for England is the Island† The central symbol for Canada†is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its "jumping-off places" — settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.

in early 1854 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was sent to map a route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Whipple was a thirty-seven-year-old West Point graduate from Massachusetts, known for his competence and conscientiousness

The [Gila River area is] so utterly desolate, desert, and Godforsaken, that Kit Carson says a wolf could not make his living upon it." | U.S. Representative THOMAS HART BENTON addressing the house of representatives, June 26, 1854

But in 1856, Fort Yuma was hellish for reasons beyond the heat. It was bedeviled by blinding dust storms and prone to Indian attacks. The barracks were plagued with ants, gnats, and, when the river was high, mosquitoes, and the toilets were open trenches heaped with dirt and lime to squelch the stench.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail... We democrats believe that we can make it all the new way with the whole family intact

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

The New Frontier of which I speak," he told the delegates, "is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

SKULL GULCH, NEW MEXICO TERRITORY NOVEMBER 1880 The

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Every outlaw and every rattlesnake in the territory that knew what was good for him would stay well back today from Mariah Stover.

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

He took as well as gave, but what he gave was unique. He had a curious precision of statement, a delicate flavour of humour, and a trick of small gestures to illustrate his meaning, which were peculiar to himself. The effect cannot be reproduced, but I remember how in discussing the wars of the future he said: "A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle" — his upraised hand and precise face conjuring up a vivid and grotesque picture.

Even before he buried Frank, Charlie decided he'd stay with the outfit until it got to New Mexico Territory, draw his pay, and strike out for the gold camps around Silver City. He'd stake a claim and, if luck was with him, find a vein of silver or pan a stream filled with gold nuggets. If that didn't work out, he could always return to thieving for a stake and ride down into Old Mexico to avoid the law, or push on farther west to California.

Michael Punke

Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that." Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide.

Erik the Red left Norway for frontier Iceland 'on account of some killings' and after a while he had to leave Iceland on account of some more killings; he needed a fresh start after his first fresh start.

The great unexplored frontier is evaluation under conditions of complexity. Developmental evaluation explores that frontier.

Beyond the Far North,' he said, 'is the Edge of the World.