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Railroads Quotes

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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 Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Harriet Tubman Jay Gould Eleanor Robson Belmont Walter Chrysler Aisha Hinds Michael Bloomberg Robert A. Heinlein Ambrose Bierce Philip Sheridan Toni Morrison Charles R. Morris Pam Houston Kathy Griffin Walter Russell Charlaine Harris Mother Jones O. Winston Link Anne Morrow Lindbergh Ed Begley, Jr. Hillary Clinton Robin Williams Betty White B. C. Forbes Julia Ward Howe Will Rogers Charles Frederick Carter Mike Rutherford Hal Rothman Anthony Quinn Hoagy Carmichael
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.
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman

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

11.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Paul Samuelson

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.
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

15.
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

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

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
Mike Rutherford

29.
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

30.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
Julia Ward Howe

31.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.
Johnny Cash

32.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
John Moody

33.
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

34.
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

35.
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
Henry David Thoreau

36.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
Christopher Morley

37.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
Alice Hoffman

38.
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Charles R. Morris

39.
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.
Toni Morrison

40.
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

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

42.
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
Paul Johnson

43.
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

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.
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.
Swami Vivekananda

47.
[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.
Michael Bloomberg

48.
I bought a railroad during this period of time.
Bill Janklow

49.
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
Donny Osmond

50.
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
Harold Evans