Railroad Train Sayings

#1. God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#4. 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 humbly seeking information.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it.

Jay Nixon

#8. It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

John E. Wordslinger

#10. It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

Olly Murs

#11. Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch.

Andrea Gibson

#12. A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

James Whistler

#13. We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Gabriel Iglesias

#14. Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

Joel Fuhrman

#15. So, if they're coming in and having to do scenes that involve nudity or sexuality, in some way, the utmost important thing is that everyone feels comfortable and safe. If there's any gray area, that's going to be a problem.

Michael Sheen

#16. Lay my head on the railroad line,
Train come along, pacify my mind.

Toni Morrison

#17. My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Criss Jami

#19. I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

Warren Zevon

#20. Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Vita Sackville-West

#21. 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

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

Jim Harrison

#23. If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. When you do something good for the people, you give a nice colour to the pale world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Christopher Morley

#26. There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor ... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places ...

Edna Walling

#27. I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

Charlaine Harris

#28. 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

#29. Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

James D. Bradley

#30. No matter how I think we grow, you always seem to let me know it ain't working, and when I try to walk away you hurt yourself to make me stay, this is crazy

Lauryn Hill

#31. I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman

#32. Driving in Olathe was likewise an exercise in patience. Going anywhere often involved waiting at railroad crossings as a long freight train passed. David

Marek Fuchs