Railroads Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

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.

Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."

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

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.

The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.