Locomotive Quotes

23 Locomotive quotes by 22 unique authors

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without… — Watchman Nee
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur M. Wellington
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware,… — Victor Pelevin
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You… — William Tecumseh Sherman
The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive. — Unknown Author
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention -… — Jan Egeland
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of… — Arthur Honegger
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles… — George Combe
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. — William C. Bryant
Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same… — Jeremy Grantham
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. — Orison Swett Marden
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive. — Joe Perry
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an… — Gary Snyder
A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to… — Boris Pasternak
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. — Rick Riordan
In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could… — Richard Wright
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest,… — Jack Kerouac
I'm his locomotive and he's my shield. — Karen Marie Moning
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. — John Moody
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his… — Eric Massa
They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive. — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Locomotive Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 23 Locomotive Quotes as follows: