Top 167 Railway Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

The establishment of rail line and railway network expansion has always been of prime importance.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering of the modern age.

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Chinese engineers have spent years finding solutions to the problems of building a railway line on permafrost ground at altitudes above 4,000 metre.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

The Hamirpur parliamentary segment stands tall with projects across sectors ranging from educational institutes, health facilities, roads and railway. My focus will be on ensuring their timely completion.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

If you are a fan of my BBC series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys,' you'll probably not be surprised to learn that one of my great aspirations is to travel on Egypt's railways.

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

I traveled to many countries when I played. But wherever I went, it was a journey between an airport, a hotel, a stadium and a railway station or a bus terminal and I didn't have a chance to experience these places properly.