Train Quotes

• Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

  Agatha Christie

  Rivers, Church, Towns

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.

  Paulo Coelho

  Right Place

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 22, 2014

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• Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jumping, Life Is Like, Watches

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• Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Journey, People

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Matter, Stories

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.74, A&C Black

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• There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

  Rosario Dawson

  Thinking, Feelings, Riding

  "Rosario Dawson Talks About Why She Loves Riding The Train", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Life is a train, get on board.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boards, Life Is

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.161, A&C Black

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• If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Stations, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 12, 2011

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• Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

  A. A. Milne

  Travel, Thinking

  "The Red House Mystery and Other Novels".

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• An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Artist, Discipline, People

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• 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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  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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• I train for the first shot – it’s all I need.

  Geoff Thompson

  Needs, Firsts, Shots

  Geoff Thompson (2009). “Watch My Back”, p.9, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Travel, Missing

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• I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn.
  "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?"
  
  On the A Train, pickin at her brain,
  I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name.
  
  I said, "I still like your style and fashion,
  But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion.
  Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot?
  Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?"
  
  She turned away, no play, I said, "OK,
  You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."

  Rakim

  Fashion, Brother, Attitude

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• If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

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• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust, Encouraging, Uplifting

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Matter, Transport

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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• It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

  Cherie Priest

  Community, Stranger

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

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• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• It doesn't matter which side of the tracks your from, the train still rolls the same.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Track, Matter, Sides

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• I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Baseball

  "Yogi Berra vs. Casey Stengel Quote War". Interview with Stan Silliman, bleacherreport.com. August 18, 2010.

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• The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Light, Mind

  "Bruce Springsteen on ‘Anomaly’ of New Album ‘High Hopes’: Exclusive". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, People, Car

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.240, Bantam

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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