Quotes of: Railroad Keyword

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

Bill Moseley

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

Nancy Grace

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

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

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

Peter Diamandis

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Anthony Quinn

Bennett Marco: You in the railroad business? Eugenie Rose Chaney: Not anymore. However if you will permit me to point out, when you ask that question, you really should say: Are you in the railroad line?

The Manchurian Candidate

Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humb...

Gone with the Wind

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Bill Janklow

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Peter Dinklage

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Harold Evans

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

O. Winston Link

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

John Moody

Dutch Engstrom: What's our next move? Pike Bishop: Well, I figure Agua Verde's the closest... three days maybe. Then get the news and drift back to the border. Maybe a payroll, maybe a bank. Dutch Engstrom: Maybe that damn railroad. Tector Gorch: Tha...

The Wild Bunch

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

George Stephenson

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive op...

Walter Russell Mead

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

Kathy Griffin

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Rod Stewart

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

Valentina Tereshkova

What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fult...

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