“On its most basic level, imperialism was all about building railroads.” — Robert Gaudi Copy Share Image
If God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic… — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside,… — Ken Kelly Copy Share Image
Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women.… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau 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
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. — John Gates Copy Share Image
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
