a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous 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
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about… — Marc Singer Copy Share Image
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood 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
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic… — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
