“ Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. ”
- Harold Robbins Haldeman- Copy
- 454
“ I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 3K
“ To this end, the Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated on April 13, 1846, with a franchise permitting the construction of a railroad across the State from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ In New York — whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame — not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements. Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves… ”
- Gilbert Adair- Copy
- 943
“ With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 618
“ 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- Copy
- 45
“ 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- Copy
- 4K
“ When business revived in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the history of American railroads began a new chapter. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 670
“ Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. ”
- Claude M. Bristol- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The words of the prophets are written/On the subway walls. ”
- Simon and Garfunkel- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. ”
- James J. Hill- Copy
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“ Railway termini... are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. ”
- Paul Simon- Copy
- 587
“ Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ”
- Muhammad Anwar el Sadat- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
- 3K
“ The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. ”
- Kelly Miller- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. ”
- Jennifer Garner- Copy
- 270
“ People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ”
- Simeon Strunsky- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Cobb County is a strong part of the Atlanta metro service area. ”
- John Leonard- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ”
- Linda Henley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ”
- Eleanor Robson Belmont- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 256
“ 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- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it was thus a kind of monster which, if encouraged, would override all popular rights. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 3.7K
“ It was a simple matter to find fault with the railroad; it has always been its fate to arouse the opposition of the farmers. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 313
“ 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- Copy
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