Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
“O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the… — James Collins Copy Share Image
Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
“They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children’s toys and other discarded belongings. The… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This… — Robert Edwards Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me… — Kay Robertson Copy Share Image
We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they… — Michael Perlis Copy Share Image
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype:… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with… — James Howell Copy Share Image
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight…Let us create vessels and sails… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
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![“Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and…” quote by Kay Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/470/kay-robertson-34139_adventure_christ-has-meant-everything-to-our-marri_1286248.jpg)
![“[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.” quote by Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4eb/sadie-tanner-mossell-alexander_admitted_on-being-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd_451217.jpg)
