I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
I literally lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, but I learned that division doesn't work. — David Steward Copy Share Image
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. — John Moody Copy Share Image
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. — Bill Moseley Copy Share Image
“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from… — Bill Moseley Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
My first song was a hardcore knock-off of 'Tangled Up in Blue.' It was based on a story maybe I had heard… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
“That war had almost torn the country in two, but the railroad, men said, had bound it back together, the tracks and… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what… — Charles Frederick Carter Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin 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
“I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families.… — Colson Whitehead 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
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
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
“-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
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. — John Moody Copy Share Image
“Life is a railroad station; soon I will set out - for where? I will not say.” — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
