Railroads Quotes

135 Railroads quotes by 119 unique authors

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
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads… — Carl Sandburg
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted… — Jane Addams
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
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the… — James A. Baldwin
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an… — Henry David Thoreau
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before. — Robert A. Heinlein
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death,… — Johnny Cash
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
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. — Harry S. Truman

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