Railroads Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Strong, Men, Nominations

  "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, The Review of Reviews, February 1893.

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• I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I’m honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks!

  Jeff Coffin

  Children, Fun, Crazy

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• The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

  John Jay Chapman

  Business, Men, Worst Enemy

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Roles, Actors, Movement

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters...part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them. We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these. They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.

  Akbar Ganji

  Lying, Ties, West

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.

  Michael Hudson

  Simple, Government, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Connections, East

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Way over on the railroad,
  Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together,
  Every scrapbook stuck with glue,
  And I'll stand beside you,
  Beside you, child.

  Van Morrison

  Children, Together, Glue

  "Song: 'Beside You' ('Astral Weeks')". 1968.

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• There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Morning, Light

  1886-8 Praeterita, vol.3, pt.4,'Joanna's Cave', note. Ruskin 704

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• We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.

  Julius Streicher

  Men, Years, Jail

  "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Apples, Google

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• 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

  Running, Rights, Want

  Bobby Seale, United States. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) (1972). “United States of America, plaintiff-appellee, v. Bobby G. Seale, defendant-appellant: appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division ...”

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• So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Creating, Giving, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley: Yeast”

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• My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.

  Ralph Stanley

  Father, Cutting, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Kids, Office

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• Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

  Mark Twain

  Benefits, Half, Clergy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Eye, Tired

  1925 'Meeting-House Hill'.

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