Railroad Quotes

122 Railroad quotes by 103 unique authors

It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day.… — Unknown Author
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,… — Martin Van Buren
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness. — Mike Rutherford
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. — Harold Evans
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch.… — Eric Hoffer
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. — Ada Louise Huxtable
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were… — Walter Russell
Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And… — Shel Silverstein
Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on… — Edgar Steele
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain
The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to… — Jerry Brown
For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like… — Franklin Chang Diaz
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. — Henry David Thoreau
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather… — Forest Whitaker
The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the… — Knute Rockne
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then… — William Makepeace Thackeray
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train! — Kurt Vonnegut
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from… — Jonathan Raban
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks… — Ronald Reagan
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. — Peter Dinklage
One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them. — Bob Dylan
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful… — Warren Zevon
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. — John Jay Chapman
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out… — Richard Scarry
I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think… — Jeff Coffin

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