Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. That is what I play. I am so embarrassed. — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements. — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“Machigonne” was the Abenaki Indian name for Portland. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain, landed the first settlement in Casco Bay on… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
What is happening is policy in Israel is being driven by the settlers who don't support a two-state solution, who want their… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“The settlers of Australia, or more accurately, its conquerors, didn’t just adapt, they transformed the Australian ecosystem beyond recognition.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
