O Pioneers Alexandra Quotes

You feel that, properly, Alexandra's house is the big-out-of-doors, and that it is in the soil that she expresses herself.
-O Pioneers ~ Willa Cather

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers! ~ Walt Whitman

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!) ~ Willa Cather

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! ~ Walt Whitman

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home. ~ Alexandra Robbins

What made Einstein special was his impertinence, his nonconformity, and his distaste for dogma. Einstein's genius reminds us that a society's competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multiplication or periodic tables but from nurturing rebels. Grinds have their place, but unruly geeks change the world. (Walter Issacson, Wired) ~ Alexandra Robbins

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act ~ Bill Gates

I ALEXANDRA is very frightening, very intense. It will keep the reader on the edge of his/her seat. ~ William M. O'Brien Jr.

When you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now. ~ Alexandra Potter

You've written three lines"
"Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember ~ Alexandra Adornetto

And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own resilience is our only weapon against the cynical, the weak, those who talk of honor but do not practice the word they so loudly and vigorously screech. ~ Alexandra Silber

She'd known instinctively that they'd been building toward something, and she was only glad it had been the same 'something' she wanted. And maybe she was a pirate after all, because she would fight like hell before ever voluntarily surrendering the treasure she'd already found. ~ Alexandra Bracken

With endings come new beginnings. ~ Alexandra Potter

You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are. ~ Isaac Asimov

Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on bringing dogs inside their homes. ~ Alexandra Horowitz

Self-styled pioneers braved the dirt and crime of rundown neighborhoods where, in the early 1980s, they could buy as much as five thousand square feet in a dilapidated brownstone for as little as $25,000. ~ Jonathan Soffer

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. ~ David Mixner

Be you, love you. All ways, always. ~ Alexandra Elle

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

How many times did I want to forget painful memories of my life? And now this, here I am, trying to remember them all. What a joke, and again, the joke's on me. ~ Alexandra Burt

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential. ~ Alexandra Robbins

While you, and only you, can move your legs from start to finish, no one runs a marathon alone. ~ Alexandra Heminsley

This is not for the purpose of personal criticism. The point is much larger and more fundamental: Mr. Obama is descriptive of an almost perfect example of a man who embodies the sum game result, the cumulative effect of America's slow but sure march to cultural impoverishment and political collectivism. Actions of his that unfailingly advance the agendas of previous activists and presidents will be highlighted as proof that the original, seminal, "transformational" objectives are still operative in the present. ~ Alexandra York

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

Because I'm not strong enough to survive seeing you with the League! I said. Because I wanted you, after everything you went through, to have a chance to find your parents and live your life. ~ Alexandra Bracken

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Love is a word we scarcely hear in the ocean. It exists only in my song and on the lips of the princes I've killed. And I have never heard it from my mother's mouth. ~ Alexandra Christo

Your brown eyes are beautiful.
don't believe the hype. ~ Alexandra Elle

I was using these runs to give me clarity and focus, to remind myself of what I was capable of, and to spur me on in all areas of my life. ~ Alexandra Heminsley

I hope that when you have the chance to crack your world open wide with new possibilities, to meet new people, and to take a turn down an unexpected, new road, you do just one thing: carpe the hell out of that diem. ~ Alexandra Bracken