41 Railroad Quotes for You to Enjoy

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. John Moody

Construction First Waters States Emerged Scheme Take River Had Period Baltimore Began Revolutionary Ohio Form Barely United Railroad United States

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter. Joshua A. Norton

Travel See Directors Taken Perfectly Safe Make Said Least Ordered Screw Inches Therefore Using Company Twenty-Four Now Railroad Hereby

The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it. Joy Reid

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The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know about. And it's actually a very empowering side of our history. Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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

Great Anderson My Friend Friend Shipping Families America Cooper Railroad

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that. Little Richard

People Song Thought Black Would Shake Like Make Houses Tracks Boy Sounds Hear Train Gonna Lived Railroad Right Night

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

Life Man Father Entire Entire Life His Years Southern Railroad

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. O. Winston Link

Best Man Big One-Man Tackled Could Did Railroad

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree. Otto Schily

Police Will Degree State State Governments Our Determine Facilities Federal However Governments Surveillance Whether Video Certain Certain Degree Railroad

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. Peter Dinklage

Station Abandoned Never Lived Railroad

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. Sturgill Simpson

Job Back Could Liked Go Railroad

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? Valentina Tereshkova

Women Space Fly Russia Workers Why Railroad

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

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. Chuck Palahniuk

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