Environmental Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway,…

— Henry David Thoreau

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a…

— James Howard Kunstler

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is…

— Charles Frederick Carter

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in…

— John Moody

Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of…

— Martin Van Buren

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.…

— John Moody

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

— Mark Twain

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor…

— John Ruskin

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream,…

— Donny Osmond