[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr 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
Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be… — Jaime Sin Copy Share Image
Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris 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
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. — Mark Cuban 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
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill Copy Share Image
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad. — Nancy Grace 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
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a… — Philip Connors 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
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image