#pioneer

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. ↗

— Paul Harris

#concerned #cradle #deed #descendants #england

...my mind drifted to my family. I thought about how I had the opportunity to serve them. I didn’t have to carry them across a freezing river in the middle of a snowstorm or give them my food when they didn’t have enough. There would be other streams they would need help to cross, and I’d be there for them, always and in whatever way they needed me. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#love #mormon #pioneer-trek #sacrifice #family

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#along #carnegie #father #grandfather #large

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#pioneers #positive-thinking #positivity #change

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#business #few #genius #i #legend

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#could #fantasy #i #i think #jewish

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. ↗

— Antony Hewish

#also #clouds #estimate #height #i

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. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#canada #care #doing #done #embark

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#been #beginning #could #i #if i could

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering. ↗

— Courtney Love

#own #pioneering #rock #script #writing