Quotes with railroad

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

  ― Ada Louise Huxtable
  American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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• 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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• There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• up-to-date
• themselves
• witticism
• children
• battered

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