A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
“The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
This I saw when waking late, Going by at a railroad rate, Looking through wreaths of engine smoke Far into the lives… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“by 1890 there were 166,703 miles of railroad (and more to come) and a single railroad corporation might have as many as 36,000 employees. This” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad… — Joshua A. Norton Copy Share Image
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had… — Victoria Wilcox Copy Share Image
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief… — John Moody Copy Share Image
When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see,… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what… — Charles Frederick Carter Copy Share Image
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
“We have to bring in the railroad,' he said. That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo.… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness. — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. — Bill Moseley Copy Share Image
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. — John Moody Copy Share Image
I literally lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, but I learned that division doesn't work. — David Steward Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from… — Bill Moseley Copy Share Image
“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“There’s no more painful love than the love you feel when you’re in a railroad station and you exchange glances with someone… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Without question, 'The Underground Railroad' is beautifully filmed, and for the most part well acted. The show also manages to do something… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
