Railroads famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
-- Andrew Young -
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
-- Anthony Quinn -
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
-- Betty White -
I bought a railroad during this period of time.
-- Bill Janklow -
I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.
-- Bobby Seale -
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 -
It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.
-- Charles Frederick Carter -
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
-- Cory Booker -
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
-- Criss Jami -
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
-- Donny Osmond -
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
-- Eleanor Robson Belmont -
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
-- Eleanor Robson Belmont -
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
-- Hal Rothman -
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
-- Harold Evans -
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
-- Hoagy Carmichael -
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
-- James J. Hill -
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.
-- Jay Gould -
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 -
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.
-- John Moody -
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
-- Kathy Griffin -
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
-- Mike Rutherford -
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
-- Mother Jones -
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
-- 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.
-- Otto Schily -
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
-- Owen Wister -
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
-- Paul Johnson -
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
-- Paul Samuelson -
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
-- Peter Dinklage -
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 -
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
-- Valentina Tereshkova -
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.
-- Walter Chrysler -
Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
-- Yip Harburg -
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."
-- Aisha Hinds -
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
-- Charles R. Morris -
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.
-- John Moody -
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress
-- John Moody -
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
-- John Moody -
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.
-- Lisa Gansky
