Railroads Quotes

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

— Mark Twain

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

— Bob Dylan

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On its most basic level, imperialism was all about building railroads.”

— Robert Gaudi

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

— Johnny Cash

“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”

— Henry David Thoreau

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

— James J. Hill

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

— Mark Twain

“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

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

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

— Robin Williams

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

— Bobby Seale

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

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

— Don Meyer

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

— Hoagy Carmichael

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads…

— B. C. Forbes

I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm,…

— Charles R. Schwab

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

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief…

— John Moody

Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the…

— Aisha Hinds

a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail.…

— Mother Jones

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe…

— Margaret Atwood

Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . .…

— Shel Silverstein

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

I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter,…

— Peace Pilgrim

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

If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for…

— William Faulkner

“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

“For the most part, four-car self-propelled Budd railcars presently connect Santiago de Cuba with Havana on the Central line. The flagship of…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“RESISTANCE TO CHANGE? “The canal system of this country is being threatened by the spread of a new form of transportation known…

— Leslie W. Rue

“Pardon Me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?”

— Mack Gordon

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Yip Harburg

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

— Toni Morrison