Quotes About The Oregon Trail

#1. I used to think I'd like to have been a pioneer on the Oregon Trail, experience untamed America.

Tracie Peterson

#2. This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen.

William Stafford

#3. The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

Andrew Sullivan

#4. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

Denis Leary

#5. I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me ...

Louisa May Alcott

#6. I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

Sloane Crosley

#7. The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

Jean Vanier

#8. Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go ... off.

Scott Hutchison

#9. Ove is fifty-nine. He drives a Saab. He's the kind of man who points at people he doesn't like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman's flashlight.

Fredrik Backman

#10. Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

Thomas Leonard

#11. Nothing will work unless you do.

Maya Angelou

#12. There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.

Nicholas Kristof

#13. It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

S.A. Tawks

#14. Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Linus Torvalds

#15. You've got to be a good date for the reader.

Kurt Vonnegut