#pioneer

I remembered looking up in the sky to see the contrail of a jet overhead. I thought how the harrowing journey that took Marie's family four months across the plains would take a little more than two hours in a plane. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#family

A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls... ↗

— Stephen Baxter

#family

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#brothers #days #flying #hadn #line

If there was one thing I learned from all my research, it was that the majority of the early pioneers didn’t dwell on the hard times; they indeed related every aspect of their lives to their relationship with God, specifically in regards to this disastrous journey. They thanked Him for their lives and the fact that they made it through. Most didn't blame leaders or those around them. They learned to accept their plight and move forward with faith. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#journey #mormon #pioneer-of-faith #pioneer-trek #faith

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#failure #forms #lands #new #often

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

— Nancy Astor

#lonely #may #often #ones #picturesque

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#doors #follow #i #i see #latin

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democratic #friends #further #leading #lots

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#coast #east #east coast #find #first

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy