Railroads Quotes - Page 6

• It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Men, Odds

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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• The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Pioneers, Whiskey

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• We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Law, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.527, Рипол Классик

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• The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.

  Jerry Brown

  Future, Moon, Years

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• These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Coal, Ems, Trouble

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• My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

  Kathy Griffin

  America, Vanderbilt, Shipping

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• Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, America

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  Walter Chrysler

  Mean, Water, Use

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• It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

  David R. Brower

  Islands, Space, Long

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• For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

  Cory Booker

  Bridges, Growth, Generations

  Cory Booker's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Track, Green, Next

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

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Race, Car, Crow

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like the horse-and-cart approach to the exploration of the American West, instead of the steamboat or the railroad.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Horse, Future, Space

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• A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Distance, Player

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.135, U of Nebraska Press

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• Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on railroad cars and transport them hundreds, even thousands, of miles to concentration camps. Camps built specifically to house them, where they would be fed, clothed, even tattooed so they could be inventoried...just to kill them.

  Edgar Steele

  War, Fighting, Two

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• Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

  Michael Crichton

  Government, Police, Bankers

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Tails

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• As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

  Paul Johnson

  Beautiful, Children, Mysterious

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• I bought a railroad during this period of time.

  Bill Janklow

  Periods

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• My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

  Nancy Grace

  Father, Men, Years

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• Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.

  Martin Van Buren

  Children, Fire, People

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• With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

  John Moody

  Ohio, Baltimore, Reorganization

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

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• We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

  Mike Rutherford

  Eye, Madness, Speed

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• Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

  John Moody

  Rivers, East, United States

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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