Railroad Quotes

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"I drove a truck for a while for a meat packing plant. I shoveled manure at the Clarmont Riding Academy in New York. Mopped floors for a while. I uploaded railroad cars and trailers at a warehouse. I wasn`t really qualified for anything else." - On his menial jobs before acting.

- James Spader

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I`d stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview {Texas]. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that`s a part of me. And my parents raised me to say "sir" and "ma`am"` to open doors, things like that. That`s the way I was brought up. Also, unfortunately, I was taught not to question too much. I didn`t really question my mom and dad. That`s usually what they told me to do.

- Forest Whitaker

(Becoming a movie director) "There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam--we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini (Harry Houdini). I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn`t, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, `Yeah, I wouldn`t mind being a filmmaker.` "

- Tim Burton

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

- Les Paul

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I`d stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that`s apart of me. And my parents raised me to say `sir` and `ma`am,` to open doors, things like that. That`s the way I was brought up. Also, unfortunately, I was taught not to question too much. I didn`t really question my mom and dad. That`s usually what they told me to do.

- Forest Whitaker

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it`s too late now, I`m afraid. Much, much too late.

- Hoagy Carmichael

Hopefully this is a low point for us, ... We simply aren`t getting the railroad fixed at the rate we should.

- John Snow

(on his beginning acting training) I was frustrated at Hofstra (University), so I moved to Manhattan, worked as a waiter and at a fruit-and-vegetable stand. I lived in a cheap railroad flat on East 171st Street, took classes at Juilliard and finally worked my way into Stella Adler`s actors` studio. And that made all the difference. This woman was like getting a flame inside you, she was so inspirational.

- Robert Davi

People are fascinated when they hear the railroad story, ... They want a story. It gives the name substance, provides a connection.

- Susan Ward

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can`t they fly in space?

- Valentina Tereshkova

We`ve seen upside in all the railroad stocks over the next year, ... remains the cheapest railroad in our universe.

- James Valentine

It was a tornado. We dove between the railroad tracks and the concrete wall. Things were swirling all over us.

- Johnny Johnson

We do support the city of Orr`s concern for safety, ... But we`re still in the research mode here. Just because a law is passed doesn`t mean that the local police or other law enforcement are capable of enforcing it. We don`t know if we have enforceability yet. We`re hoping it`s something that the railroad will work out with the city of Orr rather than becoming an adversarial relationship.

- Dave Phillips

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

- Harold Evans

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

- John Moody

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

- John Moody

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of `49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

- John Moody

Under the Thomson management, which lasted until 1874, the record of the Pennsylvania Railroad was one of progress in every sense of the word.

- John Moody

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

- John Moody

The development of railroad properties under the Vanderbilt influence was not confined to the territory east of Chicago and the Mississippi Valley.

- John Moody

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.

- John Moody

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

- John Moody

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

- John Moody

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

- John Moody

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

- John Moody

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

- John Moody

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

- John Moody

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

- Ahmad Smith

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

- Al Sorrentino

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.

- Alexander Jodorowsky

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn`t be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

- Ammie Kim

(On Sunday morning, following the destruction of the water line, the Rev. Tom Jimison of Central United Methodist Church in Spencer furiously preached in favor of the strikers. He prayed for railroad employees and their families and asked God to lead management to resolve the issue soon. At the end of the service, as chords of) Amazing Grace ... Your soul had a better chance of going to heaven if you grew up with your feet under a union table at mealtime.

- Anita Erhardt

We got through one phase of it and convinced state lawmakers of its importance, ... Now, we have to stand up against the railroad and maybe even the federal government to make them understand our situation here.

- Anne Worcester

It`s really hard to say whether they`ve slowed down, ... There`s been some construction going on (on the railroad tracks), and when you see them going30 miles per hour, you don`t know if it`s because of the construction or the resolution.

- Anne Worcester

A railroad meant two things for the community. It allowed for marketing of local produce such as grain and livestock, and it allowed for direct entry of English and German immigrants into the community.

- Arthur Berger

Fewer cars are available, and the costs of shipping grain are up significantly in many areas. Just a few short years after BNSF strongly encouraged shippers to build facilities capable of loading 52-car trains, the railroad is now penalizing those same shippers.

- Baldomero Vázquez