15 Railroads Quotes for You to Enjoy

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. W. E. B. Du Bois

Love Freedom Vote Ride Liberty Sunshine Space Will Men Beauty Believe Enjoy Thinking Dreaming Kingdom Color Arms Souls Friends Breathe Working Choose Railroads Right Stretch

In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story. Felix Dennis

Will Made Beginning Make End America In The End Story Century Railroads

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. George Stephenson

Great Will Pay Rage Parts Where Laid Many Railroads

I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town. Jason Molina

Sometimes Somewhere Think Else Out Would Find Horizon Something Rather More Somewhere Else Town Look Always Metaphysical Than Expected Get Just Places Lived Railroads

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. John Gates

Difficult Beneficiaries Project Sector Economic Primary Public Public Sector Railroads

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. John Moody

States East Physically Lay River Mere Mississippi Mississippi River Another Were Owned Them Separately Even United United States Railroads Nearly Extensions

Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently. Linda Colley

India Easy Rather Mass Abysmal Look How However Covered Left Behind Them View Illiteracy Appear Railroads Differently Levels British

Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels. Lisa Gansky

History Business Made Power First Building Nation Aggressive Minds Some Share Hotels Hilton Cleverest Understood Brand Titans Created Premier Fortunes Who International Platforms Railroads

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. Peter Diamandis

Innovators Airlines Entrenched Whether Large Displaced Railroads Disrupted

U.S. industries from steel-making to plastics synthesis are among the world's most energy-efficient; American agriculture is highly productive, as are America's railroads. But for decades, Americans themselves have been living beyond their means, wasting energy in their houses and cars and amassing energy-intensive throwaway products on credit. Vaclav Smil

World Agriculture Car Energy Living Synthesis Highly Beyond Most Industries Houses Been Decades America American Themselves Means Productive Products Railroads Among Credit Wasting

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. Warren Rudman

You Care First Down Chaotic Earthquake Airport Collapsing Angeles Highways Major Hours Buildings How How Much Los Los Angeles Were Huge Going Much Planning Bridges Railroads Shut

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads. Stacey D'Erasmo

Time Worth Indeed Invented Only Weight Remembering Since Know Most Around Been Clock Nostalgic Century Us Standardized Railroads

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