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«Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.»
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable | Keywords: obsolete, railroad, railroads, railroad station, station, up-to-date
«If God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads»
Author: Michael Flanders | About: God | Keywords: intended, railroads, To Fly
«(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: Big cities, Big City, brawl, brawling, freight, freighted, handler, hog, husky, maker, railroads, stormy
«One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.»
Author: Lee Iacocca | About: Government | Keywords: bankrupt, bankrupts, post, post office, railroads, The Post Office
«RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: devices, enabling, expedition, expeditions, get away, hold off, permits, railroad, railroads, transit
«Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.»
Author: Harry S Truman (President) | Keywords: railroads, the country, Wall Street, welfare
«A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Words | Keywords: inch, in trouble, railroad, railroads, railroad track, rolled into one, rolling, smooth, switch on, track, wreck
«A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: railroad, railroads
«People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: amuse, battered, coppers, freight, freighted, freight train, Puns, railroad, railroads, railroad track, tracks, upset, wanton, wantons, witticism, witticisms
«A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt (President) | About: Education | Keywords: freight, freighted, freight car, railroad, railroads, railroad car, steal, university
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