Railroad Quotes
Railroad Quote of the day
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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 car goes way down, as it will.
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.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
Every great day has a story and a song!
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association
Through the dark night chasing the morning lightThat headlight streaming white through the night
Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge