Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill Copy Share Image
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving,… — Nas Copy Share Image
The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion… — Franklin Chang Diaz Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“I’m guessing if you asked anyone from IT about the moral implications, they would likely extol humanity’s well-documented historical grapples with new… — Tal M. Klein Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“In mid-sentence, there was a jolt and the unmistakable hissing sound of the steam engine was heard. The train came to life… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“RESISTANCE TO CHANGE? “The canal system of this country is being threatened by the spread of a new form of transportation known… — Leslie W. Rue Copy Share Image
“For the most part, four-car self-propelled Budd railcars presently connect Santiago de Cuba with Havana on the Central line. The flagship of… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image