Train Quotes - Page 30

• Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

  Daisy Whitney

  Track, Missing, Way

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• You cannot out-train bad nutrition. It's impossible.

  Scott Eastwood

  Nutrition, Impossible

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• If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

  Andy Weir

  Blood, Earthquakes, Cities

  "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, May, Destination

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• There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Taken, Struggle

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• Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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• Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.

  Duke Snider

  Baseball, Team, Player

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

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• Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Train Of Thought, Every Man

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.257, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Culture, Care

  "What Can Stop the One Percent? by Naomi Klein, www.yesmagazine.org. October 10, 2011.

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• I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction. There were days I was so torn by my conflicting emotions that I thought I would be ripped in half. Staring at my best friend and secret object of my undying love, I wondered if I would ever get off this crazy train of emotions swirling around inside me. I didn't like feeling this way. But the truth was I couldn't remember a time I didn't feel this aching need to completely immerse myself in all things Daniel Lowe.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Crazy, Kissing, Talking

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• Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, Winning, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

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• Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. In the process one has made four hydrogen atoms into one of helium. The theory, of course, was not made on the railway train from Washington to Ithaca ... It didn't take very long, it took about six weeks, but not even the Trans-Siberian railroad [has] taken that long for its journey.

  Hans Bethe

  Taken, Journey, Hydrogen Atom

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• The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

  Martha Griffiths

  Want, Helping, Problem

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• [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
  [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Paris, World

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• When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

  Anna Brackett

  Travel, Journey, Long

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• All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

  Richard Lamm

  Greatness, Engineering, World

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• We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Horse

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• I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Night

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Car, Would Be

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• Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

  Joanna Baillie

  Women, Home, Garden

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• Consistency is a virtue for trains.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Consistency, Virtue

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Art, Children, Mind

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

  Soong May-ling

  Leadership, Heart, Hands

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• We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.

  Humphry Davy

  Train Of Thought, Ideas, Perfection

  "emoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy". Book by John Davy, p. 130, 1836.

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