Railway Quotes

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

— E. M. Forster

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

— Bertolt Brecht

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

— Tony Blair

She had more curves than a scenic railway

— Anonymous

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

— Rod Stewart

“I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.”

— Alessandro Baricco

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.

— Michael Flanders

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna…

— Tariq Anwar

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

— Anonymous

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

— Yemi Osinbajo

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

— Ambrose Bierce

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

— W. S. Gilbert

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

— Thomas Beecham

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

— Cyril Connolly

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

— Nina Bawden

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences…

— Winston Churchill

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden…

— George Francis Train

Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale…

— Karl Marx

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an…

— Paul Theroux

My older brothers would scour the railway tracks for lumps of fallen coal to keep us warm and we'd sleep, top to…

— Shakin' Stevens

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served…

— Eugene V. Debs

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than…

— Anonymous

Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering…

— Prashant Bhushan

“And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with…

— Paul Theroux

How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to…

— Martin Amis

The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really…

— Jeremy Irvine

The budget is forward looking growth engine and will promote transparency and integrity. It is for the common people. This budget shows…

— Narendra Modi

We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as…

— Julian Barnes

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up…

— Robert Benchley

Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.…

— Andrew Dickson White

Clearly, there needs to be an increase in the capacity of the railway system. That's why there are these projections of increasing…

— Thabo Mbeki

“The emergency services had not yet been organized. Rosine could go where she wished. Her high heels made her stumble in the…

— Maurice Renard

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing…

— Henry Hazlitt

“The trains [in a country] contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon…

— Paul Theroux

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

— Michael Flanders

Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

— Narendra Modi

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

— Santiago Calatrava