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

Authors on Railroads Quotes: John Moody Mark Twain Henry David Thoreau Harriet Tubman Jay Gould Eleanor Robson Belmont Bill Janklow Paul Samuelson John Ruskin Swami Vivekananda Christopher Morley James Stockdale Yip Harburg W. E. B. Du Bois Donny Osmond Meryl Streep Harold Evans Alice Hoffman Peter Dinklage John Kenneth Galbraith Russell Baker Cory Booker Sam Keen Walter Chrysler Aisha Hinds Michael Bloomberg Ambrose Bierce Philip Sheridan Robert A. Heinlein Charles R. Morris Pam Houston Toni Morrison Walter Russell
2.
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

3.
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
Valentina Tereshkova

4.
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.
John Moody

5.
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
Cory Booker

6.
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
Sam Keen

7.
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
Anthony Quinn

8.
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
Philip Sheridan

9.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Paul Samuelson

10.
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
Mark Twain

11.
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman

12.
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
W. E. B. Du Bois

13.
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
Robin Williams

14.
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

15.
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
Pam Houston

16.
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
James Stockdale

17.
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
Mark Twain

18.
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
Hoagy Carmichael

19.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Ada Louise Huxtable

20.
It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.
Jay Gould

21.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
Henry David Thoreau

22.
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
Mother Jones

23.
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
Walter Russell

24.
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.
Anthony Stafford Beer

25.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Yip Harburg

26.
I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.
Jay Gould

27.
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.
Walter Chrysler

28.
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
Ambrose Bierce

29.
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
Mike Rutherford

30.
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
Henry David Thoreau

31.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
Julia Ward Howe

32.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.
Johnny Cash

33.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
John Moody

34.
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
John Ruskin

35.
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.
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.
Charles Frederick Carter

37.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
Christopher Morley

38.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
Alice Hoffman

39.
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Charles R. Morris

40.
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.
Toni Morrison

41.
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
O. Winston Link

42.
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

43.
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
Paul Johnson

44.
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
Peter Dinklage

45.
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

46.
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
Kathy Griffin

47.
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.
John Kenneth Galbraith

48.
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.
Will Rogers

49.
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.
John Moody

50.
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
Hal Rothman