When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The… — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions… — Edgar Steele Copy Share Image
There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . .… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more,… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story.… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
We should be focusing on boosting passenger safety and improving our existing highways and railroads - not wasting taxpayer money on a… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. — Kathy Griffin 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
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. — Ada Louise Huxtable 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
“When railroads were first introduced, some people thought the speed would be so intense, it would cause their organs to shoot out… — Tal M. Klein Copy Share Image
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker 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
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. — George Stephenson Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures,… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image