Quotes About Pioneers

Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

They fought the Indians and then they fought the British, comprising 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army. They were the great pioneers— Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Davy Crockett among them— blazing the westward trails into Kentucky , Ohio, Tennessee, and beyond, where other Scots-Irishmen like Kit Carson picked up the slack.

To those who had a chance to watch them both work, the minds of William and Elizebeth appeared equally amazing and equally incomprehensible. Their brains were Easter Island statues, stony and imposing.

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

My generation, with Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovic, Arvydas Sabonis, that was the first wave of European players that kind of opened the door for the world.

In a way Girls Aloud were the first wave of modern celebrity. When we started out there were no camera phones clicking away.

The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.

America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.

There have been women who have pioneered and paved the way for me to be able to sit here and to have a platform. And it's my job and my duty to continue to push the boundary for equality on all spectrums.

I am one of the pioneers, along with those players who went before me, and I'm coming to China to help the league and help more players get to know this league.

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

Preston later spoke of Zemurray with admiration. He said the kid from Russia was closer in spirit to the banana pioneers than anyone else working. "He's a risk taker,"4 Preston explained, "he's a thinker, and he's a doer.

In the years following WWII, American helicopter pioneers like Sikorsky, Frank Piasecki, Larry Bell, Stanley Hiller, Charlie Kaman and others continued their research and development, making progress in improving performance and reliability.

Contrary to popular belief, the performers who emerged from the southern hills to become the pioneers of country music and bluegrass were not from an exclusively aural folk tradition. Formal musical education, albeit rudimentary, was available each summer in towns like Rosine in the form of "singing schools!

Poverty plus confidence equals pioneers. We never doubted.

just as twenty years ago, everyone knew John Colter and Jim Bridger.

By 1929 a handful of farsighted flight pioneers had concluded that "aviation could not progress until planes could fly safely day or night in almost any kind of weather." Foremost among these was Dr. Jimmy Doolittle, recently armed with a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In