Thomas Train Sayings

#1. The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#2. I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

Susan Powter

#3. I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.

Rick Scott

#4. Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Barton Gellman

#5. I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

Callan McAuliffe

#6. How did I find myself here? Me - the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

Fadia Faqir

#7. (Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone)
You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

Thomas Merton

#8. The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles
can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train
the mind to think.

Thomas A. Edison

#9. I stumble downstairs unsure, but hopeful to find more masturbation material. When I find the living room completely quiet and empty, I almost shed a tear.

Sadie Grubor

#10. I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Clarence Thomas

#11. We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Living simply makes loving simple.

Bell Hooks

#13. I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Thomas Dooley

#14. War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

#15. We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

Thomas R. Cech

#16. What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

Thomas Dooley

#17. No, but you're the most beautiful thing I've seen in the morning sun.

Jamie McGuire

#18. Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Thomas Carlyle

#19. We got on a moving train there. That's more of a financing arrangement on that [Dracula] film. It would be disingenuous to say we're producing it. So it was really about getting into business with our partner at Universal.

Thomas Tull

#20. Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Thomas Mallon

#21. So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Thomas Hooker

#22. Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.

Queen Latifah

#23. Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

Edward Thomas

#24. Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

Thomas Merton

#25. Today he would believe. Tomorrow would answer for itself.

Jerry S. Eicher

#26. Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

Rubin Carter

#28. The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

Ilana Mercer

#29. Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

Thomas Gray

#30. Democracy is interactive ... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Dick Gephardt

#31. I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

Frederic Chopin

#32. 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

#33. The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.

Thomas Hardy