Quotes About Railroad Tracks

#1. Some hours later they were down
at the railroad tracks
standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead
scattering drops of itself.

Anne Carson

#2. Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

Little Richard

#3. The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Don Meyer

#4. The most beautiful warrior, who has scar tissue designs coiled like railroad tracks over the rigorous architecture of his chest and shoulders and back.

Jennifer Egan

#5. Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Karl A. Menninger

#6. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

Pete Carril

#7. When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

Pam Houston

#8. Given a little wine, you will find folks are the same no matter what side of the railroad tracks they came from.

Nancy B. Brewer

#9. COBB: You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter...
Mal looks at his across the railroad tracks. Replies-
MAL: Because you'll always be together.

Christopher J. Nolan

#10. The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.

Chuck Klosterman

#11. A TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

Mother Jones

#12. If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog

Jim Harrison

#13. Reagan was looking at Nick like she was already tying him to the railroad tracks. Wren

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Engagement pictures made me want to vomit - especially when they were taken on railroad tracks. I always pictured Thomas the Train rolling over them, his smiley blue face beaded with their blood.

Tarryn Fisher

#15. Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow.

Ramon Gomez De La Serna

#16. I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

Jill Scott

#17. I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Begley Jr.

#18. This time he had seen it coming, like a monster in a slow-motion nightmare. This time he had seen it coming, like standing rooted on the railroad tracks, unable to jump aside.

Michael Grant

#19. The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

Tammy Bruce

#20. I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

Michael Shannon

#21. She went boneless.

Mo Willems

#22. When no food is given to the ear,Then let a little be given to the stomach.

Thiruvalluvar

#23. What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks? Trains don't normally sneak up on people. Unless they've derailed, you pretty much know where to find them.

David Sedaris

#24. Miles and miles and miles.

Alan Shepard

#25. The Reading Terminal Market on 12th and Arch was created in 1892 when the Reading Railroad opened markets below the elevated tracks of the new train shed. It had consistently housed an undetermined amount of aromas since then by creating a gastronomic bazaar conveniently located at street level.

Craig Johnson

#26. The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

Siri Hustvedt

#27. The warmth of mutual respect ... Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.

Orson Scott Card