Pioneer Day Quotes

#1. On the morning of the July 24, Pioneer Day, Dan got up, prayed, and felt prompted by the Lord to saw the barrel and stock off a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun that he had been storing at his mother's house.

Jon Krakauer

#2. One day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

Chuck Klosterman

#4. The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

Jensen Ackles

#5. If you are truly involved in a film and if you are going to do any kind of good work, you have to have that full commitment to the work. If you aren't willing to do that, or if that is not in your nature, I say steer clear of it.

Jay Cassidy

#6. Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.

Anne Macdonald

#7. The shot glass is half drunk.

Brian Spellman

#8. Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. The landscape around us is but a shadow of the landscape within us.

William T. Vollmann

#10. Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.

Martin Freeman

#11. Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.

David Ignatius

#12. I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Richard Branson

#13. I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#14. On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

Anna Howard Shaw

#15. Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

Oli Anderson