Quotes of Freight - somelinesforyou

“ A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. ”

- Bernardo Bertolucci

“ The human brain is like a railroad freight car — guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train! ”

- Mariah Carey

“ No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. ”

- Jim Clark

“ A priest asked: What is Fate, Master? And he answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build byways from City to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and alongside which inns have come to be built to stave off Hunger, Thirst and Weariness… ”

- Kehlog Albran

“ People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. ”

- Unknown

“ Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home. ”

- Donald Dale Jackson
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