Pioneers Quotes · Page 4

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

— Neil Young

“Sometimes he thought the pioneers had sacrificed much more than the value of the average way of life in America.”

— Vidar Sundstol

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

— Nancy Astor

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

— William H. Calvin

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

— Benjamin Rush

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

— Ameen Rihani

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

— Jose Feliciano

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people…

— Willa Cather

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite…

— George Sarton

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I…

— Nora Ephron

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize,…

— Walt Whitman

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a…

— Astrid Lindgren

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my…

— Robert E. Howard

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I,…

— Thomas S. Monson

The Lourie Center...is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in…

— Connie Morella

If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.…

— Bill McKibben

Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it…

— Robert Henri

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered…

— Barack Obama

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…

— J. B. Priestley

A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.…

— Mikhail Naimy

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers…

— Darell Hammond

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer…

— Ennio Morricone

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone…

— Neil Gaiman

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

— Buzz Aldrin

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

— Eileen Gray

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

— Anonymous

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...”

— Herman Melville

It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.

— Joan Lunden

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

— Henry David Thoreau

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

— Lotte Reiniger

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

— David Ben-Gurion

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

— Kate Baldwin

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

— Henry Ford

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of…

— Mikhail Sholokhov