Pioneers Quotes

We were pioneers in a brand-new medium. Everything`s fun when you`re young.

(on Gentleman`s Agreement (1947)) "We felt we were brave pioneers exploring anti-Semitism in the United States - today, it seems a little dated."

Have you ever heard of some fellows who first came over to this country? You know what they found? They found a howling wilderness, with summers too hot and winters freezing, and they also found some unpleasant little characters who painted their faces. Do you think these pioneers filled out form number X6277 and sent in a report saying the Indians were a little unreasonable? Did they have insurance for their old age, for their crops, for their homes? They did not! They looked at the land, and the forest, and the rivers. They looked at their wives, their kids and their houses, and then they looked up at the sky and they said, "Thanks, God, we`ll take it from here."

The Sons of the Pioneers is the foundation of Western music and to see them leave Tucson is a devastating blow for the community.

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

We were really great pioneers,

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don`t care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen`s history, they`ve always been pioneers in the application of technology. They`re the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they`ve been more pioneers on the special education side.

We have some pioneers, some leaders around the country, in Massachusetts and Kansas to name a couple, that are doing some of the best work.

They have a strategy that targets every conceivable private opportunity in the world. What they`re doing has never been done before on this scale. They are the pioneers.

The pioneers of Texas brought their Bibles and their Sacred Harp books, ... It`s a wonderful part of our folk heritage that`s been revived.