Railway Quotes
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Being prisoner great shame. Great! Redeem honour building railway for Emperor. Great honour. Great!
— Richard Flanagan
And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
— Ameen Rihani
Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
— James J. Hill
She had more curves than a scenic railway
— P.G. Wodehouse
I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.
— Vladimir Lenin
If you can't change it don't worry about it.
— David Barrett
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.
— John Hegley
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
— W.S. Gilbert
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
— Fintan O'Toole
Smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not
— Joseph Conrad
Nineveh, Tyre, a God-forsaken railway in Siam, Dorrigo Evans said, flame
— Richard Flanagan
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
— D.H. Lawrence
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
— Baba Kalyani
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
— George Stephenson
Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway-line
— D.H. Lawrence
STRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IS NOT A RAILWAY
— Charles Dickens
Railway fettler, and his family lived in a Tasmanian Government Railways
— Richard Flanagan
Once upon a time,there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
— Hilary Mantel
If one will just be still, shut up, and listenlo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in a grimy London railway station. — David Mitchell
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
— Dinah Sheridan
Apparently," Vetinari remarked to Drumknott, "the pounding of the railway wagons will lead to immorality.
— Terry Pratchett
I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
— Dan Aykroyd
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
— Natalie Dormer
It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844)
— Anthony Bailey
I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
— Rod Stewart
Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
— P.G. Wodehouse
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.
— Jon Winokur
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
— Richard Flanagan
As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.
— Alexandre Dumas
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
— Cyril Connolly
Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
— Ambrose Bierce
He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages.
— Jojo Moyes
What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.
— Alessandro Baricco
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
— Bertolt Brecht
