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Train Quotes by Paul Theroux
- The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car,…
- The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.
- Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.
- Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I…
- It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
More Train Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where… — Erykah Badu
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. — Charles Barkley
- I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for… — Aaliyah
- When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit… — Corrie Ten Boom
- Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother… — Andrea Bocelli
- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied… — Anthony Bourdain
- Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. — Bill Bryson
- Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been… — James Buchan