#pioneer

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. ↗

— Nancy Astor

#lonely #may #often #ones #picturesque

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#developers #home #i #into #nothing

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. ↗

— Charles Marion Russell

#civilization #destroys #pioneer #things

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#american #american workers #built #expense #freedom

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

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

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#biggest influence #country #critic #cuisine #far

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#early work #loses #once #organization #pioneering

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#concerned #democracy #development #distinguished #domestic