#pioneer

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

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

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

I decided to write the book I wanted to read ↗

— David A. Lottes

#coming-of-age-stories #french-in-north-america #frontier-and-pioneer-life #historical-fiction #native-americans

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

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life. ↗

— Robert Henri

#intense-desire #pioneer #art

one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#frontier-and-pioneer-life #snow #weather #western #life

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. ↗

— Mary Fallin

#american dream #better #built #dream #example