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
When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing… — Robert Benchley 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
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
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our… — Barack Obama 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
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford,… — Jonathan Raban 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
Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re… — James Patterson 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
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house,… — Karl A. Menninger 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
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go… — Jack London 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
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“In mid-sentence, there was a jolt and the unmistakable hissing sound of the steam engine was heard. The train came to life… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One 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
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It… — Ben Klassen 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