Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. — Harry S. Truman 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
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. — Paul Samuelson 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
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
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
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain… — Don DeLillo 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
Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions… — Edgar Steele 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
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
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
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
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
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. — Kathy Griffin 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
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City… — Carl Sandburg 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
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story.… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris 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
The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image