Trains Quotes

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion, Art, Training

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
Alan Rickman

Love, Nothing, Getting

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Power, Give, Flower

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
James Buchan

Science, Last, Prosperity

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Home, Friends, Eyes

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
Sally Ride

Time, Together, Same

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
William Law

Education, Women, Great

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
Jane Smiley

Dark, Sometimes, Themselves

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
Leon Panetta

Control, Nation, Group

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
George Henry Lewes

Thought, Complex, Signs

For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
Jo Nesbo

Great, Best, Happy

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.
Jo Nesbo

Time, Writing, Sometimes

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin

Education, True, Thinking

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon

Lazy, Born, Late

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
Gary Coleman

Computers, Yourself, Brain

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
James Hansen

Power, Death, Plants

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
Bill Bryson

Person, System, Childhood

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.
John Lee Hooker

Again, Found, Took

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
Michael Burgess

Leadership, Women, Men

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
Robbie Williams

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
James Lipton

School, Everything, America

I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
Callan McAuliffe

Beautiful, Pretty, Big

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
Anthony Quinn

Down, Through, Put

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.
Julie Benz

Success, Hard, Else

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
Billy Campbell

Love, Travel, Car

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
Ike Turner

Life, Seen, Miss

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.
John Mica

Far, Nation, Show

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.
Rosario Dawson

Love, Romantic, Feeling

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
Andy Milonakis

Kids, Song, Walk

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
Witold Lutoslawski

Music, Cannot, Whose

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