Train Quotes

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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if… — Edward Abbey
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of… — Mercy Otis Warren
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is… — Thomas Jefferson
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.… — Benjamin Franklin
In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced… — John Mica
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and… — John Dewey
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least… — Angela Merkel
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon. — Ronald Reagan
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good… — Walt Whitman
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station. — Bernard Malamud
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik
How did I get to Hollywood? By train. — John Ford
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections… — Richard Sibbes
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it… — Helen Keller
By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other… — Christine O'Donnell
Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes. — Scott Tinley
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He… — William James

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