Railroads Quotes
Collection of top 32 famous quotes about Railroads
Railroads Quotes & Sayings
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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
— Philip Sheridan
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
— Henry David Thoreau
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.
— Mark Twain
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
— Henry David Thoreau
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
— Andrew Carnegie
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
— Robin Williams
War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were.
— Patricia Cornwell
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
— Peter Diamandis
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
— Julia Ward Howe
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
— Sam Keen
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
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
— Mike Rutherford
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
— Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
— George Stephenson
What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.
— Harvard Business School Press
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
— Christopher Morley
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
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
— Paul A. Samuelson
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
— Harriet Tubman
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
— Mark Twain
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
— Harry S. Truman
If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?
— Henry David Thoreau
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
