Railway Quotes · Page 2

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

— Caroline Lucas

The Indian Railways will become the growth engine of the nation's 'Vikas Yatra'.

— Narendra Modi

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

— Ameen Rihani

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

— Yemi Osinbajo

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

— Ambrose Bierce

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

— W. S. Gilbert

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

— Thomas Beecham

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

— Cyril Connolly

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna…

— Tariq Anwar

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,…

— James Buchan

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts…

— Richard Jefferies

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a…

— Michael Portillo

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended…

— Haile Selassie

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel…

— Anthony Trollope

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the…

— Robert Fripp

They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a…

— Naveen Andrews

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

— Henry Abbey

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also…

— Dave Calhoun

The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me…

— Linda McQuaig

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is…

— Virginia Woolf

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to…

— Nina Bawden

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“železničke stanice u ovoj zemlji često su daleko od užeg centra, ni to ne znam baš zaštoo, ali mogao bih da nabrojim…

— Anonymous

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back…

— Charles Kingsley

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

— Anonymous

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

— Marine Le Pen

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

— Natalie Dormer

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

— Joe Harris

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

— Jon Winokur

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

— James J. Hill

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

— Charlotte Lamb

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the…

— Claire Denis

The establishment of rail line and railway network expansion has always been of prime importance.

— Anurag Thakur

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

— Santiago Calatrava

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

— Timothy Morton

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

— George Stephenson

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

— Dan Aykroyd

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

— Hilary Mantel