Frontier Quotes

“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Hannah is a vegetarian; Trace is a cattle rancher. Definitely, not a match made in heaven.
“A horse with a sense of humor. Was that possible?”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“Jerking her blindfold back into place, he yelled, “Giddy-up!” “They only say that in cartoons, you moron.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“Buttercup?” Trace looked concerned. “You’ve named the cows?”
“Not all of them… yet. I’ll give them each a name when the perfect name pops up.”
He scratched his head. “You do know the fate of most beef cattle, right?””
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
― Louis Simpson, People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-1983

“I dont know what happens to country.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to say that where anything which involves qualities or character is asserted, we must be understood to mean" under the circumstances.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers

“The frontier may indeed have closed at last, as Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed in his history-making speech at the fair, but for that moment it stood there glittering in the sun like the track of a spent tear.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

“Ann didn't move. There was no use; her mother had seen her. She could try to hide the flowered plates but that wouldn't be any use either. Her mother had already been in the cabin and seen the open chest.

Ann waited, her heart pounding and her eyes on the ground. When she finally looked up, her mother was standing quietly beside her and looking at the tea party table. Ann held her breath, but for some reason her mother didn't look cross at all. Instead, there was the same kind of lovingness in her face as she had when she rocked the baby after he had been crying for a long time. Then Mrs. Hamilton turned to Ann and smiled.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Jones," she said. "I hope I am not too late for tea. And is this your daughter?" Mrs. Hamilton nodded toward Semanthie. "My, how she's grown!”
― Jean Fritz, The Cabin Faced West

“Wise people do not fly budget airlines!”
― Steven Magee

“Greatest Nation On Earth...LOL!!!”
― Steven Magee

“Christmas 2022 revealed the hazards of flying budget airlines.”
― Steven Magee

“Good luck with trying to get a canceled ticket refunded from a budget airline!”
― Steven Magee

“When flying budget airlines, it is a good idea to buy the travel insurance!”
― Steven Magee

“It can take days to get rescheduled on a budget airline if they cancel your flight.”
― Steven Magee

“I spent New Years Day 2023 researching the numerous poor customer reviews at Frontier Airlines.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no faith in budget airlines.”
― Steven Magee

“I have read stories of budget airlines stranding families and them having to pay $9,000 to get home!”
― Steven Magee

“I suspect the poor customer service at the budget airlines would be grounds for termination at the larger airlines.”
― Steven Magee

“Cheaper airline tickets from budget airlines have come at the expense of poor customer service.”
― Steven Magee

“It only took one flight with a budget airline to discover how horrible their airline was!”
― Steven Magee

“Hello budget airlines, goodbye customer service.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello video camera, goodbye airline ticket.”
― Steven Magee

“Calling 911 for a police officer when an airline is engaging in extortion with you is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.”
― Steven Magee

“The wilds are truly unforgiving, and while injury isn’t a surefire ride unto the end, it often grants the swiftest accommodations.”
― Trent Lindsey, Those Wyrd and Wonderful

“The true greatness of the frontier lies embedded between men of character, those that stride in the face of danger, and despite the odds, these champions sacrifice for the greater good.”
― Trent Lindsey, Those Wyrd and Wonderful

“We are all more than the things we do”
― Grace Curtis

“The hobo is... merely a belated frontiersman, a frontiersman at a time and in a place when the frontier is passing or no longer exists.”
― Robert Ezra Park, The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment