Quotes About American Pioneers

#1. There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

Eric Liu

#2. I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

Frazier Glenn Miller

#3. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks,

Anthony Doerr

#4. With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

Candice Millard

#5. You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

Peter W. Smorynski

#6. A sadist with a sense of humor was particularly dangerous.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. We are naught but a collection of the people we have known and the paths we have followed.

Jeremy Laszlo

#8. Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written

Adam Langer

#10. Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

Lynne Truss

#11. To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,

Rachel Kushner

#12. The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Mary Fallin

#13. Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

Ted Strickland

#14. It's so wonderful ... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Donald O'Connor

#15. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.

Sinclair Lewis

#16. You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Cornel West

#17. Anger is fire. It burns inside. It destroys.

Jonathan Morris

#18. Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .

George Bodenheimer

#19. You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#20. I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium!

C. JoyBell C.

#21. Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

Rebecca Solnit

#22. The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.

Dave Barry

#23. The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Sam Harris

#24. Beauty is common but what's rare is a great energy and outlook on life.

Neil Strauss