Train Quotes

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. (Oscar Wilde)
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. View quote
Harriet Tubman
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. View quote
Leon Trotsky
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. View quote
George William Russell
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. View quote
Ali
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. View quote
Robert Lowell
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. (Morihei Ueshiba)
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves? View quote
Marc Maron
Commuter one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again. View quote
E. B. White
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. View quote
George Lucas
Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! View quote
Mariah Carey
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. View quote
William Wordsworth
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,miserable train Turns his necessity to glorious gain. View quote
William Wordsworth
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel. (Edward Young)
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves their stronger, riskier selves. View quote
Toni Morrison
The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In some situations however, when you are deeply with your problem, you feel at home anywhere just thinking about your problem. Some of my best work was done in hotels, on the train, and there's no rule. More important when you think is what goes on inside rather outside. [...] The best thoughts can be nearly everywhere. View quote
Cédric Villani