Railroads Quotes · Page 9

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not…

— Betty White

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

— Paul Johnson

I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet…

— Amy Lowell

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the…

— Lincoln Steffens

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers,…

— Michael Crichton

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man,…

— John Jay Chapman

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction…

— Ludwig von Mises

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California…

— Anonymous

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you…

— Bobby Seale

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

— Harriet Tubman

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

— Kathy Griffin

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

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving,…

— Nas

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has…

— Charles R. Morris

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that…

— Newt Gingrich

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively…

— Vladimir Putin

Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

— Yip Harburg

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

— Hoagy Carmichael

Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they…

— Willa Cather

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out…

— Henry R. Towne