Footplate Quotes

#1. The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

George Dow

#2. Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.

David Livingstone Smith

#3. The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics

Rachel Swaby

#4. YOU ARE NOT AFRAID?
'Not yet. But, er ... which way to the egress, please?'
There was a pause. Then Death said, in a puzzled voice: ISN'T THAT A FEMALE EAGLE?

Terry Pratchett

#5. Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

Rupert Brooke

#6. The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.

Allen West

#7. Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous.

Girdhar Joshi