Quotes About Daniel Boone

#1. I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

Dick Dale

#2. Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror.

Bill Bryson

#3. There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#4. When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it's time to watch your step.

Bill Bryson

#5. To be fucking human, to not put too fine a point on it, and Daniel Boone can kiss my ass.

Terry Pratchett

#6. When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

Douglas Brinkley

#7. When Daniel Boone goes by at night
The phantom deer arise
And all lost, wild America
Is burning in their eyes.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#8. The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Aldo Leopold

#9. I'm going now. My time has come.

Daniel Boone

#10. I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Daniel Boone

#11. Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Daniel Boone

#12. On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

Daniel Boone

#13. The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

Daniel Boone

#14. We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Daniel Boone

#15. Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!

Daniel Boone

#16. Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone

#17. I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

Daniel Boone

#18. All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Daniel Boone

#19. During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

Daniel Boone

#20. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

Daniel Boone

#21. May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Daniel Boone

#22. Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

Daniel Boone

#23. I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

Daniel Boone

#24. I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.

Daniel Boone

#25. Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Daniel Boone

#26. Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms

Daniel Boone

#27. Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Daniel Boone

#28. Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

Daniel Boone

#29. In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Daniel Boone

#30. Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Daniel Boone

#31. No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

Daniel Boone

#32. A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Daniel Boone

#33. I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone

#34. In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Daniel Boone

#35. It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

Daniel Boone

#36. Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Daniel Boone

#37. In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Daniel Boone

#38. Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Daniel Boone

#39. In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Daniel Boone

#40. I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.

Daniel Boone

#41. I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Daniel Boone

#42. One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Daniel Boone

#43. I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Daniel Boone

#44. I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

Daniel Boone