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Railway Quotes by Nina Bawden
- I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side…
- People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.
- I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at…
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- My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the… — Dan Aykroyd
- The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — 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… — Sydney Brenner
- The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served… — 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… — Joan Aiken
- Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936,… — Mae West