The Railroad Quotes
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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
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
If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. Brown Dog — Jim Harrison
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
Reagan was looking at Nick like she was already tying him to the railroad tracks. Wren
— Rainbow Rowell
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
— Harriet Tubman
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
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
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
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
— Bill Moseley
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
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
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
— Amy Dickinson
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
— Mike Rutherford
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
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
— Sam Keen
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
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
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
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
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
— Mark Twain
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
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
— Charles R. Morris
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
