"It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello."

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Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

David Baldacci

#Country Quotes #Journey Quotes #America Quotes

“We are good if our peers think weâ€™re great. But we are great if the real world thinks weâ€™re good.”
“There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.”
“In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.”
“I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.”
“I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.”
“Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.”
“I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."”
“Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.”

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