Railroad Tracks Quotes

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

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• Miles and miles and miles.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Miles

  "The 12 Moonwalkers: Where Are They Now?" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. July 16, 2009.

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

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Cowboy, Railroads

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.394, Courier Corporation

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

  Pam Houston

  Kids, Track, Railroads

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

  Anna Funder

  Taken, Two, Worry

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.285, Granta Books

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• It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

  Philip Connors

  Nice, Wine, Beer

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• 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.

  Les Paul

  Beautiful, Thinking, Wife

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• I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Railroads, Lost

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• 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

  Science, Railroads, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Voice, Track

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• There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.'

  Tim Burton

  Teacher, Reading, Book

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

  Russell Crowe

  Kids, Nba, Parent

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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

  Railroads, Today, Obsolete

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• 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

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Reflection, Self

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• 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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Women, Eight, Years

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

  Warren Zevon

  Running, Track, Low Self Esteem

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

  Jack London

  Sports, Home, Thinking

  "The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916". Stanford University Press. Volume three, 1988.

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• 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. It was my mother.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Running, Voice

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.216, Penguin

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

  Jack London

  Cycling, Life Worth Living, Bicycle

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.193, Stanford University Press

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• The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Distance, Track

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• A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Distance, Player

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.135, U of Nebraska Press

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Jail

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