Railroads Quotes

Railroads Quote of the day

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

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

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

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.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?

The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.

The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her.

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.

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.

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

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.

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.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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!

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.