As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The… — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young 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 was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris 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 true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain 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
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about… — Marc Singer Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.” — Harvard Business School Press 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
