Top 980 Railroad Tracks Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

We will be in the railroad business, first and foremost.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

If you grow up on the good side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. If you grow up on the bad side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. It's not rocket science.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very good to do that in order to facilitate better communications between us. I have been partnering with the director of the Spirit Tracks to fight against the director of the new Wii game and yes, recently we have been winning!

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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.

The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.

Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives) and blameless wrongdoing (such as when you don't push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives), then utilitarianism all of a sudden appears to give the right answers.

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

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.

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don't stop at tracks, I try to complete the whole package with the song. So working at that level has put me in a completely different place.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times; in total I ended up with 50 tracks. I don't know how I did it.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

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.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.