Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the Underground Railroad became a spy network, so we could still have fresh stories for these characters years… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“In Wisconsin in 1856, the LaCrosse and Milwaukee Railroad got a million acres free by distributing about $900,000 in stocks and bonds… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang… — Dak Prescott Copy Share Image
What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks?… — David Sedaris 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
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
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold… — John Moody Copy Share Image
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't… — Mickey Rooney 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
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
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
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was like, 'Oh, let's do a show about the Underground Railroad.' I never come up with great titles, and I thought,… — Misha Green 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
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
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take… — John Moody 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
Some of the early speculation I saw in the press was that I am a rail fan. I'm not. This is not… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, a history book in school will talk about the Underground Railroad as if it's one sentence. But thousands of people decided… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell 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
Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far… — Charles Platt 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
