Railroads Quotes

135 Railroads quotes by 119 unique authors

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
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
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad. — Nancy Grace
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. — Kathy Griffin
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and… — Lee Iacocca
I bought a railroad during this period of time. — Bill Janklow
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. — Paul Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and… — Anthony Quinn
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
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
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
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
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
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
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read… — Andrew Young
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

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