The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. — John Moody Copy Share Image
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
This I saw when waking late, Going by at a railroad rate, Looking through wreaths of engine smoke Far into the lives… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“by 1890 there were 166,703 miles of railroad (and more to come) and a single railroad corporation might have as many as 36,000 employees. This” — Hugh Brogan 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
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. — John Moody Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.” — Chuck Klosterman 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
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
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
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
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
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
“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history… — Ronald Geigle Copy Share Image
“The iron horse still rumbled through the tunnel when she woke. Lumbly's words returned to her: "If you want to see what… — Colson Whitehead 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
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
“There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stories about enslaved Africans can be depressing, exciting, educational and, yes, even entertaining depending on your taste. However, they should never be… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of people, when they first hear about the Underground Railroad, think it really is a subway or a locomotive. When… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We have to bring in the railroad,' he said. That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo.… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done… — August Wilson 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
“One of the most ambitious men to exploit the timber trade was Hugh F. McDanield, a railroad builder and tie contractor who… — Denele Pitts Campbell Copy Share Image
“Life is a railroad station; soon I will set out - for where? I will not say.” — Marina Tsvetaeva 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
