41 Railroad Quotes for You to Enjoy

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt

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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. Mary Harris Jones

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.

Food Out Taking Tracks Green Scraps Behind Where Hole Burying Them Next Grow Lived Railroad Things Started

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress. Paul Allen

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Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things. Richard Scarry

People Airport Station Out Find Pictures Look Around How Go Snap Wherever Even Railroad Things Vacation Watching

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. Ada Louise Huxtable

Today Nothing Station More Obsolete Built Up-To-Date Than Railroad

John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company. Alex Berenson

Half Big Rose Bonus Corporation Bit John More Fell Period Big Company His Years Salary Stock Than Snow Average Much Paid Company Chairman Railroad Nearly Million Profits

I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support. Ambrose Burnside

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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old. Ashley Graham

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I bought a railroad during this period of time. Bill Janklow

Time Bought Period Railroad

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. Bill Moseley

Men Come Great-Grandfather Line Railroad

Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen. Charles Platt

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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things. Collis Potter Huntington

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In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was. Colson Whitehead

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'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe. Colson Whitehead

Hope Better Believe Kind Cases Only Both Better Place Animated Underground Another Does Exist Up North Surviving Refuge Human Place Apocalypse Railroad Last Zone

I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail. Dak Prescott

You People Black White Other Side Out Cross House Principal Tracks Go Been Up Louisiana Hang Jail Grew Then Grandma Grandpa Grandparents Teachers English Railroad

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there. Debbie Reynolds

Home Family Parents Before White Living Slept Those Oak Park Uncles Had Shared House Were Five Times Loved Us Grandparents Hard Hard Times Eventually Near Railroad Street