Quotes About Homesteading

#1. Homesteading is gone.

Jonathan Evison

#2. Some of my favorite contemporary Montana writers and their books include Annick Smith's Homestead, a memoir of her experiences, along with her husband and four children, homesteading in the Blackfoot Valley on 163 acres in the 1960s; Deirdre

Nancy Pearl

#3. In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

Carl Sagan

#4. My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

Pam Grier

#5. I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#6. I found myself daydreaming of homesteading in the wilderness on a remote mountain somewhere.

Gordon Blaine

#7. My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.

Isaac Newton

#8. Life is not about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it's learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure.

Alexis Jones

#9. We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

Joanna Lumley

#10. If we draw a line in the sand, our love ought to be more evident to the world than our doctrine.

Joe Battaglia

#11. We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#12. Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.

Sigmund Freud

#13. Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Ted Nugent

#14. I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.

Donatella Versace

#15. A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.

Emily Matchar

#16. From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone
used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds.

Jonathan Raban

#17. My attorney put down the phone after making several calls. "There's only one place where we can get fresh salmon," he said, "and it's closed on Sunday." "Of course," I snapped. "These goddamn Jesus freaks! They're multiplying like rats!

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. Faith sustains the soul, spirit and the body.

Lailah Gifty Akita