Trains Quotes
217 Trains quotes by 197 unique authors
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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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When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in…
— Regina Doman
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Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop…
— James Frey
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A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
— Jostein Gaarder
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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers…
— Ronald Reagan
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Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or…
— Neil Gaiman
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His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest…
— William Gibson
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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your…
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
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It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they…
— David Baldacci
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Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick…
— Eve Ensler
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The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a…
— Nelson Algren
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Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need…
— Frances Mayes
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Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I…
— Leonard Cohen
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After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have…
— Henry Rollins
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Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a…
— Nicole Krauss
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He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,…
— Fannie Flagg
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Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling…
— Esmeralda Santiago
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Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational…
— J D Salinger
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Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound…
— Lucy Christopher
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Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try…
— Cassandra Clare
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Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw.…
— H.G. Wells
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The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety…
— Carter G. Woodson
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I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Trains Quotes
197 authors contributed a total of 217 Trains Quotes, led by these top contributors: