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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
The Indian Railways will become the growth engine of the nation's 'Vikas Yatra'. -- Narendra Modi
Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service. -- Dan Aykroyd
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink. -- Paul Theroux
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways. -- Michael Flanders
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. -- Kelly Miller
If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops. -- Gerd von Rundstedt
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. -- John Betjeman
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that. -- Nina Bawden
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. -- Gordon Sinclair
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States. -- Baba Kalyani
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too. -- Daphne Guinness
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. -- John Moody
We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments. -- Baba Kalyani
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. -- H. G. Wells
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness. -- Mark Shand
We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents. -- Nick Lampson
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy. -- Shirley Bassey
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. -- Arthur Smith
We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others. -- Baba Kalyani
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure. -- Christine Pelosi
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels. -- Joanna Lumley
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways. -- Nina Bawden
For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance. -- Kenneth R. Miller
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with. -- Nina Bawden
If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways. -- Michael Flanders
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. -- Anna Godbersen
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. -- Joe Harris
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. -- Henry Abbey
I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz? -- Elie Wiesel
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California -- John Moody
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California." -- John Moody
My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station. -- George Akerlof
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways -- Alfred Russel Wallace

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