Pioneers The Oregon Quotes & Sayings

Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I. — Rumi

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer. — William Carey

You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it. — Leigh Bardugo

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war. — Arundhati Roy

I still think of Oregon Trail as a great leveler. If, for example, you were a twelve-year-old girl from Westchester with frizzy hair, a bite plate, and no control over your own life, suddenly you could drown whomever you pleased. Say you have shot four bison, eleven rabbits, and Bambi's mom. Say your wagon weighs 9,783 pounds and this arduous journey has been most arduous. The banker's sick. The carpenter's sick. The butcher, the baker, the algebra-maker. Your fellow pioneers are hanging on by a spool of flax. Your whole life is in flux and all you have is this moment. Are you sure you want to forge the river? Yes. Yes, you are. — Sloane Crosley

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care. — William Wordsworth