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
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
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
Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel Taggart had been a penniless adventurer who had come from somewhere in New England and built a railroad across a continent,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water… — Walter Chrysler 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hoosiers deserve a straightforward approach about information regarding blocked railroad crossings and I commend the Federal Railroad Administration's willingness to work with… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
The tail of the comet always points straight away from the sun, in antisolar direction. Sometimes the tail trails behind, but sometimes… — Eugene Parker Copy Share Image
As I got older, I lived right next next to the Long Island Railroad, so in junior high and high school I'd… — Chris Weidman 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
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that… — Collis Potter Huntington Copy Share Image
