Quotes About Pioneer

Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'

Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.

I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I'm a pioneer in this sport.

Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a song and still have a hit on the radio.

I think coming from the Northwest is something that's born in your blood. On my mom's side, I'm, like, a sixth-generation Oregonian. My family came over in the covered wagons, 'Oregon Trail'-video-game style. Maybe the pioneer mentality runs in my blood because they were all pioneers.

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

I am a pioneer of this sport. I currently hold every record for this MMA. That is correct? I have more commercials, more movies, more endorsements, and more viewerships than anyone has.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

Drag will always be a dynamic and powerful art form, and it is my duty now to honor the artists who have come before me while continuing to pioneer my own path and history by being open to growth and change as a human and a drag superstar.

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.