Railway Quotes · Page 2

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

— Caroline Lucas

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

— Anna Godbersen

Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.

— Yemi Osinbajo

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

— James J. Hill

Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

— Dick Strawbridge

The Indian Railways will become the growth engine of the nation's 'Vikas Yatra'.

— Narendra Modi

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

— Ameen Rihani

Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

— John Hegley

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights…

— Timothy Morton

If you are a fan of my BBC series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys,' you'll probably not be surprised to learn that one…

— Michael Portillo

No restaurant, however brilliantly situated, can give you the constantly changing views that you can see from a railway. Revolving restaurants at…

— Michael Portillo

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted…

— John Moody

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the…

— William Topaz McGonagall

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the…

— Daphne Guinness

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight…

— Pete Rose

The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will…

— Marshall McLuhan

Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.'…

— Anonymous

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as…

— Henry Adams

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…

— Lynne Truss

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is…

— Virginia Woolf

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to…

— Nina Bawden

Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also…

— Dave Calhoun

The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me…

— Linda McQuaig

“železničke stanice u ovoj zemlji često su daleko od užeg centra, ni to ne znam baš zaštoo, ali mogao bih da nabrojim…

— Anonymous

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

— Hilary Mantel

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

— Dan Aykroyd

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

— Anonymous

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

— D. H. Lawrence

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

— Santiago Calatrava

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

— Timothy Morton

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

— George Stephenson

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

— Jon Winokur

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

— James J. Hill

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

— Joe Harris

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the…

— Claire Denis

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

— Charlotte Lamb

The establishment of rail line and railway network expansion has always been of prime importance.

— Anurag Thakur