Quotes of: Freighted Keyword

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

Anthony Foxx

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

Bill Lipinski

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a ...

Peter Lynch

Vinny Gambini: Does that freight train come through here at 5:00 A.M. every morning? Hotel Clerk: No, sir, it's very unusual. Vinny Gambini: [the next day, after Vinny was awakened by the train] Yesterday you told me that freight train hardly ever co...

My Cousin Vinny

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Mariah Carey

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

Anthony Foxx

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

Art Linkletter

[...]the stately and slow-moving Turk, With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm.

Prelude

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

The Prince of Tides

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

John Sergeant Wise

That Love is all there is Is all we know of Love, It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove.

Emily Dickinson

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Bill Lipinski

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Robert Toombs

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

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

Bill Moseley

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

Hesiod

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

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Utah Phillips