Railroads Quotes - Page 2

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

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Lost, Underground Railroad

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Kings, People

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• American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

  Umberto Eco

  Spring, Coffee, Humble

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Important, Clinton

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Running, Track, Hip Hop

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

  Lee Iacocca

  Running, Government, Office

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• 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

  Men, Leader, Products

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Religion, Gongs, Critics

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

  Sam Keen

  Best Practices, Advice, Looks

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Running, Money, Men

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

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Cowboy, Building

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

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

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Money, Car, Taste

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

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• 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

  Class, Car, Firsts

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• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  Warren Rudman

  Airports, Bridges, Earthquakes

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• Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.532, Harvard University Press

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• One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Class, Political, Doubt

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• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Loyalty, Grateful, Heart

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• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Believe, Sunshine

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2010). “Darkwater: The Givens Collection”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

  Paul Samuelson

  Stories, Internet, Canals

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• 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

  Mexico, West Coast, Down And

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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

  O. Winston Link

  Men, Bigs, One Man

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