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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. -- Harriet Tubman
Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting. -- Johnny Cash
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. -- David R. Brower
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad. -- Nancy Grace
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress -- John Moody
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. -- John Moody
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. -- Charles R. Morris
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. -- Alice Hoffman
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. -- Bill Moseley
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. -- John Moody
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! -- Philip Sheridan
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party. -- Andrew Carnegie
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. -- Henry David Thoreau
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it. -- John Tesh
The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever. -- Swami Vivekananda
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline. -- Ivy Lee
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft. -- George Packer
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. -- Mother Jones
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. -- Mother Jones
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. -- Donny Osmond
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
Disney World?" Ari felt like his head was about to explode. "Disney World?" His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. "They're not on vacation! They're on the run! They're running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they're on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad? -- James Patterson
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. -- Peter Dinklage
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? -- Valentina Tereshkova
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. -- Paul Johnson
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. -- John Moody
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. -- Kathy Griffin
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late. -- Hoagy Carmichael
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. -- John Moody
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
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. -- John Moody
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
I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses. -- Steven Pinker
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
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. -- Jill Scott
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
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. -- Mother Jones
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. -- Margaret Atwood
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it. -- Betty White
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
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. -- Les Paul
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
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad. -- Mark Twain
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. -- Harold Evans
I bought a railroad during this period of time. -- Bill Janklow
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We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. -- Henry David Thoreau
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. -- Toni Morrison
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement. -- Amy Dickinson
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship -- John Moody
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. -- James J. Hill
Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? -- Yip Harburg
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! -- Mark Twain
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. -- Mark Twain
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. -- Robin Williams
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. -- O. Winston Link
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. -- Sam Keen
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points -- John Moody
One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them. -- Bob Dylan
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! -- Mark Twain
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. -- Christopher Morley
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. -- Don Meyer
Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906] -- Edmund Morris
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We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness. -- Mike Rutherford
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. -- Henry Ward Beecher
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train! -- Kurt Vonnegut
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. -- John Moody
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business -- John Moody
The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin. -- Isabel Gillies
This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection. -- Vladimir Putin
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office. -- Jeff Sessions
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks. -- Pam Houston
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. -- Russell Baker
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. -- John Jay Chapman
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. -- John Knowles
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad. -- Charlaine Harris
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. -- Warren Zevon
Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child. -- Van Morrison
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable. -- Will Rogers
The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.' -- Nas
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast. -- Mickey Rooney
I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights. -- Bobby Seale
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. -- Criss Jami
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting. -- Eric Hoffer
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. -- Ray Stannard Baker
Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount? -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons. -- Michael Bloomberg
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era. -- Ronald Reagan
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. -- John Moody
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent. -- Jonathan Raban
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
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
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.
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
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand -- John Moody
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. -- John Moody
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
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already. -- David Crockett

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