Steam Quotes

241 Steam quotes by 214 unique authors

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than… — Alan Huffman
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled… — Alan Huffman
The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as… — Gautam Adani
The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown. — Lykke Li
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids… — Robin Marantz Henig
A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour… — Rita Ora
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. — John Mason Good
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a… — Ben Sweetland
Mode of providing steam power to locomotives. — John Ericsson
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. — John Moody
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of… — Henry Austin Dobson
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking… — John Sexton
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run… — Edward Grey
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of… — Hermann von Helmholtz
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if… — Paul Prudhomme
A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to… — Timothy Zahn
I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my… — Jane Siberry
When it's steamboat time, you steam — Mark Twain
With magnetism, power of uncondensed steam, gravitation, radiant energy of electric waves, equilibrium and activity of atoms, all inscrutable to human eyes, man still cries,… — Juan Antonio Samaranch
Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines… — Bill Gates
Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I do… — Sorin Cerin
As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion, when transmuted into intellectual and moral force, becomes a… — James Allen
Im reminded of Orville Tethington, inventor of the worlds first steam-powered fog machine. Hes also the guy who, after the Germans invented the flame thrower… — Jarod Kintz
Deep down past my skin and bones down to my heart where all my steam blows it's like I had a hole and my soul… — Jade Surette
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense. — Unknown Author

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214 authors contributed a total of 241 Steam Quotes, led by these top contributors: