Train Quotes - Page 17

• Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Competence, Ideals

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

  Horace

  Horse, Teaching, Necks

  "Epistles", Book I. 2. 64, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.

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• I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .

  Garrison Keillor

  Sweet, College, Air

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• Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

  Alexander Pope

  Zephyr, Breathe, Shrouds

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

  Tom Peters

  Teamwork, Thinking, People

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• Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

  Edward Thomas

  June, Names, Afternoon

  'Adlestrop' (1917)

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• Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

  Tom Waits

  Attitude, Blue, Suitcases

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• I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Sleep, Cities

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• Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Disappointment, Discipline, Rose

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• We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Sea, Roots, Rose

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  Warren Christopher

  Gone, Bosnians, Force

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• New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Reading, Cities

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• Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Travel, Morning, People

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• The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Luxury, Should

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• The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

  Bear Bryant

  Summer, Twilight, Office

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• Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.

  Bill Rodgers

  Smart, Race, Views

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• Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.

  Bryan Davis

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

  Harry Redknapp

  Christmas, Care, I Don't Care

  "United restore Premier League lead". www.cnn.com. December 21, 2003.

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• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Brandon Routh

  Couple, Australia, Effort

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

  Corrine Brown

  People, Waiting, Needs

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• If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

  John F. Carlson

  Memories, Impression, Materials

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

  Esme Raji Codell

  Space, Library, Platforms

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• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, New York, Turkeys

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• The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

  James J. Hill

  Males, Passengers

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