Railway Quotes

Railway Quote of the day

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

She had more curves than a scenic railway

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

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.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

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 dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

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!

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.