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122 Railroad quotes by 103 unique authors

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs… — James Stockdale
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? — Valentina Tereshkova
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train… — Harriet Tubman
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time… — Betty White
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices… — Jack Kerouac
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone… — Jack Kerouac
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity:… — Allen Ginsberg
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables… — Haruki Murakami
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in… — Ally Carter
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… — Elizabeth Gaskell
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like… — Sarah Dessen
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing… — Jack London
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. — Toni Morrison
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub… — Alice Sebold
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. — John Knowles
Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a… — Margaret Mitchell
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for… — Umberto Eco
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural… — Charlaine Harris
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before. — Robert A. Heinlein
Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation!… — James Patterson
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. — Henry Ward Beecher
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. — Bill Moseley
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year… — Chuck Palahniuk

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