Quotes About Transcontinental Railroad

#1. It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Tim O'Reilly

#2. The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.

Jerry Brown

#3. The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

Charles R. Morris

#4. The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Edith Cavell

#6. Let us thank God for valour in abstraction
For those who go their own way, will not kiss
The arse of law and order nor compound
For physical comfort at the price of pride

Louis MacNeice

#7. I don't have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

A.S. King

#8. Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age.

Alex Morritt

#9. To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways ... (The Rape Of The Swan)
Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

Archibald MacLeish

#10. Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Andre Malraux

#11. you dont know what you got till its gone

Joni Mitchell