A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont 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
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. — John Gates Copy Share Image
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women.… — Karel Capek 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
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin 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
What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled… — B. C. Forbes 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
There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more,… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. — Ada Louise Huxtable 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
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
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
“When railroads were first introduced, some people thought the speed would be so intense, it would cause their organs to shoot out… — Tal M. Klein Copy Share Image
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. — George Stephenson 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
