Best Railroad Sayings
122 Railroad quotes by 103 unique authors
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Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company…
— Criss Jami
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An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which…
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
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I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the…
— Ella Reeve Bloor
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
— O. Winston Link
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Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
— Yip Harburg
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RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
— James J. Hill
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You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
— Amy Dickinson
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company,…
— George Packer
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Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
— Nancy Grace
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My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
— Kathy Griffin
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I bought a railroad during this period of time.
— Bill Janklow
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
— Paul Johnson
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told…
— Mother Jones
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden…
— Mother Jones
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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders…
— John Moody
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Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful…
— Les Paul
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I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the…
— Steven Pinker
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When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows…
— Jonathan Raban
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Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and…
— Little Richard
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance…
— Otto Schily
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I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love…
— Jill Scott
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