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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, People, Car

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.240, Bantam

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• There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.

  Han Nolan

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  Han Nolan (2014). “Dancing on the Edge”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Ideas, Missing

  "This column will change your life: do you own gadgets - or do they own you?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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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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• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  Walt Disney

  Brother, Business, Years

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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