Railroad Quote by Ayn Rand

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

— Yip Harburg

For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the…

— Lisa Joy

The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

— Tim O'Reilly

In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your…

— Colson Whitehead

When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

— Karan Mahajan

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic…

— John Knowles

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard…

— Victoria Wilcox

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything…

— Mickey Rooney

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as…

— Collis Potter Huntington

The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.

— Misha Green

“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after…

— August Wilson