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 scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge — John E. Wordslinger
Louder 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
Brown Dog — Jim Harrison
Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch. — Andrea Gibson
my 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
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
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
All the men were driving home from work, wearing railroad hats, baseball hats, all kinds of hats, just like after work in any town anywhere.
— Jack Kerouac
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
A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography.
— Celeste Ng
When railroading time comes you can railroad - but not before.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
— Don Meyer
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
A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.
— Harold Holzer
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
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.
— John Tesh
Night from a railroad car window
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light. — Carl Sandburg
is 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
Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor.
— Lorrie Moore
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
— Charles R. Morris
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
— Criss Jami
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
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
— Will Rogers