Railroad Quotes

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Theodore Roosevelt)
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
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. View quote
Russell Baker
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. View quote
Walter Chrysler
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child. View quote
Van Morrison
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God. View quote
Charles Kingsley
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. View quote
Sarah Dessen
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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. (Jay Gould)
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. View quote
Jay Gould
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. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
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. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things. View quote
Richard Scarry
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. View quote
Ada Louise Huxtable
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. View quote
David R. Brower
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. View quote
Eleanor Robson Belmont
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. View quote
Harold Evans
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. View quote
John Moody
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. (John Moody)
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. View quote
John Moody
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. View quote
Les Paul
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. View quote
O. Winston Link
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree. View quote
Otto Schily