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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

Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge — John E. Wordslinger

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

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad. — Mark Twain

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

Miles and miles and miles. — Alan Shepard

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party. — Andrew Carnegie

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me. — Warren Zevon

Given a little wine, you will find folks are the same no matter what side of the railroad tracks they came from. — Nancy B. Brewer

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

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog — Jim Harrison

Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch. — Andrea Gibson

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

Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow. — Ramon Gomez De La Serna

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation. — Johnny Gimble

Every great day has a story and a song! — Faith Reese Martin

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. — John Moody

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

Reagan was looking at Nick like she was already tying him to the railroad tracks. Wren — Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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

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

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. — Henry David Thoreau

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

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them. — Bob Dylan

All the men were driving home from work, wearing railroad hats, baseball hats, all kinds of hats, just like after work in any town anywhere. — Jack Kerouac

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

Some people write string quartets, some grow lettuce and tomatoes. There have to be a few who build railroad stations, — Haruki Murakami

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont

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

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad. — Nancy Grace

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement. — Amy Dickinson

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

A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography. — Celeste Ng

When railroading time comes you can railroad - but not before. — Robert A. Heinlein

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office. — Jeff Sessions

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad. — Charlaine Harris

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

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad. — Tim O'Reilly

The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin. — Isabel Gillies

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

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

The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together. — Fritz Nordengren

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

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill

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

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet. — Henry David Thoreau

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

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence. — Harold Holzer

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. — Daniel Suarez

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. — John Moody

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. — John Moody

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

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it. — John Tesh

Night from a railroad car window
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light. — Carl Sandburg

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

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

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. — John Moody

The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks. — Chuck Klosterman

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

Lay my head on the railroad line,
Train come along, pacify my mind. — Toni Morrison

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

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train! — Kurt Vonnegut

Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor. — Lorrie Moore

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

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. — Criss Jami

This may be the only example in history of an individual financing an entire railroad of significance out of his own pocket. — Bill Dedman

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

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

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

For example, the Kilometer 4 site - named for a station on a local railroad line - contained — Jerry D Moore

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. — Bill Moseley