Railroads Quotes

135 quotes by 119 authors

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
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
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.
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
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower
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
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim… — Barack Obama
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
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
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer
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
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
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What… — Anton Chekhov
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
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
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
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. — Carl Sandburg
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
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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