Quotes with freight

  • 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.

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  • Theodore Roosevelt 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.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bill Lipinski Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bill Lipinski Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bill Moseley My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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