A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The story of the Underground Railroad is the story of American heroes, and who doesn't want to hear a story about American… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin's 'The Underground Railroad' is plodding and rudderless. — Jason Johnson 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. — John Moody 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
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. — Bill Moseley Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told. — Misha Green 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
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my… — John Tesh 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
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
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill. — Karan Mahajan 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
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
