Train Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

  Jedediah Berry

  Home, Return

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.213, Penguin

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• Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

  Joanne Harris

  People, Waiting, Sitting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.197, Random House

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Leadership, Effectiveness

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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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• She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 13, 2011

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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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