Railway Quotes

93 quotes by 84 authors

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service. — Dan Aykroyd
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more… — Bernard Law Montgomery
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the… — Sydney Brenner
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction… — John B. Jervis
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. — Ambrose Bierce
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...… — Charles Dickens
He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce. — Fintan O'Toole
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more… — Eugene V. Debs
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that… — Joan Aiken
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway… — Mae West
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey
We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance… — Paulo Coelho
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If… — Peter Kropotkin
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. — Anna Godbersen
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know… — Alfred Russel Wallace
In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential. — Lalu Prasad Yadav
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken… — KatÃ³ Lomb

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