In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.
Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. . . . In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people. " I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant. " "Apologize and I'll let it go. " I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty. " There. I was civil. It almost killed me.
Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.
Life is just like an old time rail journey. . . delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.
there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
