Best Railroad Tracks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.”

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Author:Amy Dickinson

“I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.”

Eye Church White Cities Tree Sweet Sight Blue Mad Tired Track Tunes Squares Curves Railroads Railroad Tracks Parthenon

Author:Amy Lowell

“a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.”

Ifs Years Enough Whole Would Be Sides Known Boys Ten Track Stealing Finance Jail Coal Arrested Railroads Lad Indianapolis Railroad Tracks

Author:Mother Jones

“Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.”

Ifs Life Needs Feels Persons Action House Track Nervous Locks Breakdown Railroads Nervous Breakdown Lock Up Railroad Tracks

Author:Karl A. Menninger

“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!”

Bike Worth Living Bicycle Cycling Life Worth Living Railroad Tracks

Book:The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three

Source: The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three

“Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people.”

People Should States Government Church Track Separation Serving Church And State Railroads Railroad Tracks

Author:Jaime Sin

“When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.”

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Author:Pam Houston

“I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it.”

People Needs Mean Water Car Train Track Lifts Floats Railroads Dumped Creeks Railroad Tracks

Author:Jay Nixon

“My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.”

Knows Men Used Father Cutting Mines Needed Track Woods Occupation Collars Rail Railroads Timber Lumber Railroad Tracks

Author:Ralph Stanley

“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.”

World Running Opportunity Views Tree Effects Fields Ready Red Towns Profound Track Tiny Miles Exploration Dirt Patches Wheat Railroads Oklahoma Railroad Tracks Dirt Roads

Author:Chelsea Manning

“People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.”

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Author:James Howard Kunstler

“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!”

Next Grows Behinds Green Track Holes Scrap Railroads Burying Railroad Tracks Green Things

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.”

Thinking Needs Persons Beautiful Sound Term Pieces Wife Track Woods Mistress Psychiatrist Railroads Lovable Bartender Railroad Tracks Bartending

Author:Les Paul

“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.”

People Night Song House Sound Black Boys Train Track Shakes Black People Railroads Railroad Tracks

Author:Little Richard

“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.”

“I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.”

Rooms Secret Streets Wall Track California Stations Interiors Philadelphia Hometown Railroads Dining Dining Rooms Decorators Railroad Tracks Mural Room Wall

Author:Jill Scott

“It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges under cars, or stiff glass bottle still in hand, hair soft on greasy pillows, still it is news she cannot follow love (his burning footsteps in blue crystal snow) & still come out all right.”

Stills Hands Passion Car Hair Thousand News Blue Glasses Track Snow Burning Bridges Bottles Crystals Pillow Footsteps Steers Railroads Railroad Tracks

Author:Diane di Prima

“And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.”

Feelings Running Mother Voice Heard Ears Breaths Train Track Miles Noise Grass Footsteps Lawns Railroads Miles Away Ragged Railroad Tracks

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”

“I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray contaner or two. Everything had been sealed up, but things were beginning to leak out. I had come to both pity and respect Len in the years since my mother left. He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comphrehend. In that, I could see, he was like me.”

Thinking Trying Years Two Enough Helping Mother Left Behinds Company Impossible Track Locals Like Me Pity Shops Toxic Bike Fluid Barrels Dump Railroads Leaks Railroad Tracks

Author:Alice Sebold

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

Knows Two Moments Care Purpose Worry Taken Anxiety Train Calm Rhythm Suspended Railroad Tracks

Book:Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

“The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.”

House Ability Basketball Distance Track Coaching Proportion Basketball Coaching Railroads Rebound Inverse Railroad Tracks

Author:Don Meyer

“Miles and miles and miles.”

Golf Miles Railroad Tracks

Author:Alan Shepard

“A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.”

Lying Building Cowboy Railroads Railroad Tracks Train Tracks

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'”

Men Whole Rooms Nice Feet Picks Yeah Wine Clean Track Whole Life Beer Being Nice Railroads Your Room Beer And Wine Railroad Tracks Groundhog Day Groundhogs

Author:Philip Connors

“When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.”

Littles Kids Used Parent Nba Little Kid Railroad Tracks

Author:Russell Crowe

“I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.”

Way Looks Would Be Used Three Like You Balls Green Bills Track Monsters Spots Quarters Going Out Fence Pitcher Railroads Tick Railroad Tracks

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.”

Knows Should Writing Stories Seems Voice Ears Track Railroads Railroad Tracks

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.'”

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

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Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.”

Way Country Mom Laughter Towns Folks Track Laughed Toms Rolling Down The Road Railroads Toads Rumble Railroad Tracks Ticklish

Author:Shel Silverstein

“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.”

“I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.”

Running Poor Lays Train Track Low Self Esteem Railroads Pitiful Railroad Tracks

Author:Warren Zevon