Train Quotes
1687 quotes by 1314 authors
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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices…
— Jack Kerouac
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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their…
— Francis Bacon
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I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...
— Tom Waits
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Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of…
— George Lucas
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The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
— Mark Twain
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The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the…
— Robin McKinley
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What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
— Annie Dillard
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She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the…
— Haruki Murakami
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Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.
— Charles Bukowski
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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
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...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had…
— Katherine Paterson
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Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
— Zig Ziglar
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A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man…
— James Allen
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I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.
— George Carlin
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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs…
— Junot Diaz
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She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to…
— Ayn Rand
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.…
— Sylvia Plath
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