Railroad Quotes
122 quotes by 103 authors
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came…
— Margaret Atwood
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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the…
— Cory Booker
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
— David R. Brower
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru,…
— Walter Chrysler
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A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you…
— Pete Carril
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The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
— Don Meyer
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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad…
— Mark Twain
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What…
— Anton Chekhov
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I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the…
— Charles R. Schwab
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't…
— Lincoln Steffens
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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
— Mark Twain
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are…
— Eugene V. Debs
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It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice…
— Philip Connors
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In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant…
— Ivy Lee
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I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick…
— Carl Yastrzemski
Who Wrote These Railroad Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 122 Railroad Quotes, led by these top contributors: