Pioneers Quotes

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

— Robert Osborne

The pioneer kills what he loves.

— Elspeth Huxley

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

— John Guare

“Not all pioneers went west.”

— David McCullough

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

— Charles Marion Russell

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

— D. H. Lawrence

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you…

— Roseanne Barr

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I am one of the pioneers, along with those players who went before me, and I'm coming to China to help the…

— Oscar

There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire…

— Joanna Lohman

In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can…

— Nas

There weren't that many people who were working with them, so we were early pioneers of influencer marketing in 2012.

— Ben Francis

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind…

— James Dyson

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

— Howard Dean

In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I…

— Charles Teo

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself…

— Anthony Hopkins

I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than…

— Harold B. Lee

But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their…

— Joan Sutherland

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first…

— Ronald Reagan

College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off…

— Chris Martin

There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned…

— Bob Hartley

I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his…

— Henry David Thoreau

To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age…

— Ronald Reagan

Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because…

— Serena Williams

“The Awakening Land" p628 A strange, uneasy feeling ran over him. If he had been wrong about his mother in this, might…

— Conrad Richter

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

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit…

— Bill Struth

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope…

— Ray Kroc

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

— Propertius