Railroad Quotes
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When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
— Pam Houston
Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge — John E. Wordslinger
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
— Philip Sheridan
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.
— Mark Twain
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Miles and miles and miles.
— Alan Shepard
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
— Andrew Carnegie
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
— Warren Zevon
Given a little wine, you will find folks are the same no matter what side of the railroad tracks they came from.
— Nancy B. Brewer
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
— Robin Williams
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
— Hoagy Carmichael
If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. Brown Dog — Jim Harrison
Some days my heart beats so fastmy ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch. — Andrea Gibson
Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow.
— Ramon Gomez De La Serna
My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
— Johnny Gimble
Every great day has a story and a song!
— Faith Reese Martin
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
— Harriet Tubman
Reagan was looking at Nick like she was already tying him to the railroad tracks. Wren
— Rainbow Rowell
I bought a railroad during this period of time.
— Bill Janklow
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
— Peter Dinklage
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
— O. Winston Link
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
— Harold Evans
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.
— Henry David Thoreau
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
— Christopher Morley
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people write string quartets, some grow lettuce and tomatoes. There have to be a few who build railroad stations,
— Haruki Murakami
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
— Mike Rutherford
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
— Amy Dickinson
When railroading time comes you can railroad - but not before.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.
— Jeff Sessions
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.
— Charlaine Harris
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
— Sam Keen
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
— Tim O'Reilly
The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
— Isabel Gillies
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
— Valentina Tereshkova
The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together.
— Fritz Nordengren
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
— Russell Baker
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
— Paul Johnson
To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
— Daniel Suarez
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
— John Moody
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
— David R. Brower
Night from a railroad car windowis a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light. — Carl Sandburg
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
— Mark Twain
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
— John Moody
The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.
— Chuck Klosterman
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
— Kurt Vonnegut
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
— Charles R. Morris
This may be the only example in history of an individual financing an entire railroad of significance out of his own pocket.
— Bill Dedman
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
— Kathy Griffin
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
— John Moody
