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Homestead Quotes

The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean.The alternative would be for the republic to breed up a race of men who could work together without growing violent: men more interested in getting somewhere than having their own way." Haniel Long: Homestead 1892: Pittsburgh Memoranda. Haniel Long
In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history. Carl Sagan
Pam Grier quote: "My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation."
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation. Pam Grier
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. James Thomas Fields
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. Mark Edwards
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country. Laura Ingalls Wilder
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. John C. Hawkes
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. Stefan Zweig
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. Paul Martin
Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset. Lee Child
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future. Brian Schweitzer
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. Peter Agre

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