The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.

Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.

— Margaret H. Hamilton

I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something -…

— Rene Redzepi

Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our…

— John Leguizamo

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest,…

— Edwin Way Teale

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

— Laura Mvula

Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They…

— Afrika Bambaataa

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the…

— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as…

— Harriet Harman

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find…

— Synyster Gates

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.

— Reggie Miller

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

— Ali Abdullah Saleh