Quotes with settlers

  • Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.

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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • E. B. White Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Erickson The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Bobby Hull Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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