Top 135 Pioneer Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Pioneer Quotes from famous people such as Bob Sapp, Katie Taylor, Shavo Odadjian, Jamaal Bowman, Anthony Fantano, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I am a pioneer of this sport. I currently hold every re

I am a pioneer of this sport. I currently hold every record for this MMA. That is correct? I have more commercials, more movies, more endorsements, and more viewerships than anyone has.
Bob Sapp
I know exactly what that’s all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.
Katie Taylor
I’ve been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music but the attitude.
Shavo Odadjian
In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew to impact nearly every facet of American culture.
Jamaal Bowman
Brian Eno is an iconic and omnipresent pioneer in the world of ambient music, but he’s gained real staying power while working behind the boards. He’s produced albums for some of modern music’s most influential artists, including Devo, David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads.
Anthony Fantano
I think coming from the Northwest is something that’s born in your blood. On my mom’s side, I’m, like, a sixth-generation Oregonian. My family came over in the covered wagons, ‘Oregon Trail’-video-game style. Maybe the pioneer mentality runs in my blood because they were all pioneers.
Mat Kearney
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
Charles Marion Russell
The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.
Maelle Gavet
I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and what he wanted was a very listenable repertory. But I’m interested in different aspects of the guitar, and of music.
Julian Bream
The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, ‘Get out of my way, I want at this thing.’ They immediately start getting creative.
Bre Pettis
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
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
George Bernard Shaw
I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, ‘How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Because there aren’t any.’
Malorie Blackman
HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality.
Betsy DeVos
In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Major Taylor
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.
Beverly Sills
Drag will always be a dynamic and powerful art form, and it is my duty now to honor the artists who have come before me while continuing to pioneer my own path and history by being open to growth and change as a human and a drag superstar.
Aquaria
For a period of time, my grandmother, Lenore Romney, and my mother, Ronna Romney, were the only two women in the Republican Party to ever secure the nomination for Senate. And they were leaders. They were pioneers in our party.
Ronna McDaniel
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneer and a role model for women across America. She is the reason women like me not only believed we had a right to be in the workplace, but were guaranteed it. She won us equality, and then showed us how to succeed.
Mikie Sherrill
I didn’t really think too much about being any kind of pioneer. The truth is, I actually kind of caught onto a couple of really great coat tails in my career. The things were already moving when I got involved in both cases, really – Poco and the Eagles.
Timothy B. Schmit
One of the very first ghost stories I read – and that was in a forest rest house, where it is a bit scarier – was by M.R. James. He is one of the pioneers of ghost stories. And the book was called ‘Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary.’
Ruskin Bond
I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.
Gurinder Chadha
I have long admired Univision – a pioneer in the industry – and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
Randy Falco
Well, I think I’ve made 44 films and only like four times I’ve played real characters I’m just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
Liam Neeson
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
Astrid Lindgren
I think people are drawn to ‘The Pioneer Woman,’ not because I am some fascinating person but because I present things that a lot of people can relate to.
Ree Drummond
For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.
Monica Crowley
Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
Buzz Aldrin
By highlighting female pioneers in STEM, we can encourage aspiring young women who want to study or work in these fields.
Jacky Rosen
I’m the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands – to eat and survive.
Evangeline Lilly
Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future, create millions of good-paying jobs, and build the clean energy economy of the future.
Jay Inslee
The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They a

The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
Dambisa Moyo
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
Frans van Houten
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn’t feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard
Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n’ roll – you don’t have to be a bass player – he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.
Robert Trujillo
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader – an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
Don Lemon
As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.
Ree Drummond
We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.
Tom Golisano
When I started Dylan’s Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.
Dylan Lauren
Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.
Jose Feliciano
I don’t think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I’m just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He’s really The King.
Natalie Cole
You have to respect America for respecting the pioneers of the game. That’s important. We do that a lot in our game in England. What they’ve done for women’s football across the world is massive.
Nikita Parris
Someone gave me great advice. That when you’re looked on as a pioneer, or you start a trend, you’re not always going to benefit from it.
Jason Kidd
To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early pioneers, there will be no nearby friendly merchants or supportive governments to replace that broken tool.
Rick Tumlinson
Keep in mind, lucha libre hasn’t been displayed in the U.S. in abundance. It’s been subtle. The pioneer was Mil Mascaras. Then that died down, and new talent was rising. Eddie Guerrero was the next one, then Konnan. Konnan had big success.
Rey Mysterio
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
The Kitchen, which my wife and I opened with our friend and amazing chef Hugo Matheson, was quickly recognized as the pioneer in ‘green’ restaurants across the country.
Kimbal Musk
Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.
Rory Gallagher