Railroads Quotes

135 Railroads quotes by 119 unique authors

Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up… — Jesse Jackson
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
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont
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
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. — O. Winston Link
Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? — Yip Harburg
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
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my… — Theodore Roosevelt
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not… — Gifford Pinchot
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement. — Amy Dickinson

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