Quotes of Railroad - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. ”

- Harold Robbins Haldeman

“ I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. ”

- Steven Wright

“ To this end, the Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated on April 13, 1846, with a franchise permitting the construction of a railroad across the State from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. ”

- John Moody

“ In New York — whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame — not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements. Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves… ”

- Gilbert Adair

“ With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. ”

- John Moody

“ When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ”

- John Moody

“ There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ When business revived in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the history of American railroads began a new chapter. ”

- John Moody

“ Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. ”

- Claude M. Bristol

“ The words of the prophets are written/On the subway walls. ”

- Simon and Garfunkel

“ Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. ”

- James J. Hill

“ 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. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. ”

- Paul Simon

“ Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ”

- Muhammad Anwar el Sadat

“ Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants. ”

- David Letterman

“ The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. ”

- Kelly Miller

“ I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. ”

- Jennifer Garner

“ People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ”

- Simeon Strunsky

“ Cobb County is a strong part of the Atlanta metro service area. ”

- John Leonard

“ If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ”

- Linda Henley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ 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

“ A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ”

- Eleanor Robson Belmont

“ 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

“ 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

“ The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it was thus a kind of monster which, if encouraged, would override all popular rights. ”

- John Moody

“ It was a simple matter to find fault with the railroad; it has always been its fate to arouse the opposition of the farmers. ”

- John Moody

“ Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. ”

- John Moody
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