Quotes About The American Frontier

#1. I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Peter Matthiessen

#2. virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious

Eithne Luibheid

#3. The archetypal dwelling of the American frontier, the log cabin, was in fact a Scots development, if not invention. The word itself, cabine, meant any sort of rude enclosure or hut, made of stone and dirt in Scotland, or sod and mud in Ireland.

Arthur Herman

#4. Between 1866 and 1900, about 20,000 people were shot to death on the American frontier. In

Alan Royle

#5. The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing
animals as a rule, men if necessary.

Wallace Stegner

#6. The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.
It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

John F. Kennedy

#7. I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

Alfred Bunn

#8. I dont know what happens to country.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. I want to keep people guessing.

Natalie Dormer

#10. There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Gore Vidal

#11. The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

Kim Jee-woon

#12. The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.

Joseph J. Ellis

#13. During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#14. Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Charles James Fox

#15. Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#16. In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

Vera Wang

#17. Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Cormac McCarthy

#18. Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sarah Zettel

#19. He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

Stephen Harrigan

#20. The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frederick Jackson Turner

#21. To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.

Iris Murdoch

#22. The important thing is to learn through experience.
The more you do the more you learn. I don't think
anyone can teach acting from a podium.

Rex Harrison

#23. Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

Sarah Palin

#24. The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

Anna Deavere Smith

#25. Freedom is choice to follow your own dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. There's more to Life than this

Bjork

#27. Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great nation and in creating more jobs. It's this frontier that is endless in terms of opportunity and potential.

Debbi Fields

#28. In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

Rick Barry

#29. He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place.
And forever different.

Mary Balogh

#30. Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.

Robert Moses

#31. There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

Christopher Buckley

#32. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson