Top 47 Train Track Quotes
#1. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.
Gever Tulley
#2. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.
Sanober Khan
#4. I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.
Jack Foster
#5. If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
Bernard Malamud
#6. I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.
Arthur Lydiard
#7. 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
#8. Given a blank we can't help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.
Heather McHugh
#9. You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!
Sergio Aragones
#10. This is where the runaway train started down the track. I was inside the dining car enjoying a plate of cookies or something. I didn't feel it then. But the train had been boarded on Saturday night when we drank the bat. And this was the beginning of its journey. Right here.
A.S. King
#11. You might be on the right track but if you don't move on, you'll get hit by a train.
Will Rodgers
#12. It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
Valentino Garavani
#14. Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.
Caitlyn Jenner
#15. Belittle, v.
No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards.
David Levithan
#16. I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).
Sabrina Ward Harrison
#17. If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
James Dyson
#18. And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
Bruce Catton
#19. Well," Skulduggery said, "purely to get this out of the way, I'll just go ahead and say it. There does not seem to be any sign of a railway track on the carpet or, indeed, a train hiding behind the sofa. And I don't think one could have fitted through the door.
Derek Landy
#20. I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
Dan Aykroyd
#21. 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
#22. When you train yourself, through repetition and practice, to overcome procrastination and get your most important tasks completed quickly, you will move yourself onto the fast track in your life and career and step on the accelerator.
Brian Tracy
#23. I love metaphors. I've never been on this train ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.
Serena Williams
#24. Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !
Andre Bramble
#25. It seemed as if the train would never depart. Local trains are always somehow overzealous. At first they panic everyone into believing they are just about to thunder off down the track with an almighty jolt, then, at the very last minute, there is always some improbable hitch.
Dezso Kosztolanyi
#26. 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
#27. But talent - if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.
Elizabeth Hand
#28. While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.
Stephan James
#29. If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.
Ted Leo
#30. And life isn't like the movies: There's no ominous swell to the sound track, no fatalistic overhead shot, nothing to tell you that this moment is the one your life will turn on; instead it's like a train silently switching tracks, sheering off midjourney into a whole other part of the night.
Paul Murray
#31. There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.
Vito Acconci
#32. The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.
Miguel Cotto
#33. The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence
John Milton Lawrence
#34. Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.
Jodi Picoult
#36. It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.
Nadine Faustin-Parker
#37. It doesn't matter which side of the tracks your from, the train still rolls the same.
Robert M. Hensel
#38. The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive," ... "He's got a box full of track, and he's frenetically laying down track in front of the train.
Billy Collins
#39. 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
#40. I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.
Stephan James
#41. He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on an open track. He knew every stop, every junction, every swamp along the way, and knew the exact point at which her conclusion would roll majestically into the station
Flannery O'Connor
#42. There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.
Sally Gardner
#43. Don't be the guy that sat spouting how greatly succesful he was to a random stranger at the airport only to find out later that random stranger was a self-made multibillinaire. OR, in shorter words ... if you toot your horn too loud, you won't hear the freight train coming down the track.
Shelley K. Wall
#44. One of us ...
One of them ...
One of us ...
One of them ...
A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track
never ending but going nowhere.
Malorie Blackman
#45. 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
#46. Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.
Andre Bramble
#47. American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
Tom Wolfe
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