Train Quotes - Page 26

• State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Government, Support

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• The future's comin' at ya' like a freight train.

  Lila McCann

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• I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

  Ike Turner

  Japan, Missing, Riding

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• We're going off the rails on a crazy train.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Insanity, Rail

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• I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Light, Hands, Sculpture

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

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• The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

  Don Cornelius

  Years, Soul, Torches

  "Next stop for 'Soul Train': new ownership" by Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Morning, Home, Organization

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• My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

  David Alan Grier

  Father, Korea, Polio

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". Interview with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. May 22, 2012.

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• I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Hurt, Wall

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.339, Da Capo Press

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• On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

  Marc Andreessen

  Tools, Needs, Internet

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Heavy, Very Smart

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• The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

  Susan Faludi

  Movement, Wonder, Neighborhood

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• At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Night, Insanity

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• Within less than an hour, Chuck and I easily located what could well be the correct platform, where we pass the time by perspiring freely until the train storms in, colorfully decorated, as is the tradition in New York, with the spray-painted initials of all the people it has run over.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, New York

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

  Joe Manganiello

  Athlete, Trying, Looks

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• Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

  Hayley Atwell

  Holiday, Mean, Sight

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• I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Teaching, Science

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• The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Race, Perfect

  Catharine Esther Beecher, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1860). “An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible”, p.235

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• The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

  James Jeans

  Stars, Science, Past

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1939). “The Stars in Their Courses”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

  David Selby

  New York, Hops, Decided

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• For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Book, Reading, Years

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• I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

  Julie Burchill

  Car, Trying, Crossroads

  Julie Burchill (2016). “Sugar Rush”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

  M. Emmet Walsh

  Animal, People, Film And Television

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• Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

  Don Cornelius

  Soul, Television, Radio

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