Train Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Knowing, Doubt, Criticism

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Memories, Blow, Night

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• So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Journey, Istanbul, Japan

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• If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Special, Critics

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

  David Lee Roth

  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

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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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• My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Knowing, Matter

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

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• Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

  Darren Main

  Time, Focus, Meditation

  Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.14, BookBaby

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• Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Spring, People, Sitting

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.158, Taylor & Francis

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• From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Paris

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• I can't take it y'all
  I can feel the city breathin
  Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
  Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

  Mos Def

  Cities, Hip Hop, Leaving

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• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Getting High

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• We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

  H. G. Wells

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

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• The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

  John of the Cross

  Understanding, Suffering, Bears

  St. John of the Cross, Thomas Merton (2007). “Counsels of Light and Love of St. John of the Cross”, p.56, Paulist Press

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• Train like a beauty look like a beast

  Cassey Ho

  Looks, Beast

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• Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

  Mark Helprin

  Summer, Country, Travel

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

  Thich Thien-An

  Kindness, Anger, Buddhism

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• If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Kids, Order

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  Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.

  Hulk Hogan

  Prayer, Wrestling, Vitamins

  FaceBook post by Hulk Hogan from Oct 05, 2016

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• The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

  Christian D. Larson

  Looks, Brightness, Sides

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.285, Penguin

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• Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

  Oscar Wilde

  Missing, Might, Six

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.711, Wordsworth Editions

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• I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Kind, Expatriates, Train Stations

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Psychics, Voice, Intuition

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

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