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Quotes About Train

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got a job on a wrestling radio show in Montreal, and he found a local professional wrestler who was able to train us.
~ Sami Zayn
He had learned never to disturb her when the keyboard was clacking. He left a quick note and slipped out. He grabbed the 6 train up to midtown and walked to the Kinney lot on 46th Street. Mario tossed him the keys without glancing up from his paper.
~ Harlan Coben
I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.
~ Nish Kumar
A big hook can be great; you'll have a big opening. But if you haven't got the right foundation, you're never going to keep that train on the tracks.
~ Channing Dungey
Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.
~ Kenny Everett
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.
~ Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.
~ Dennis Miller
Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness.
~ David Paul
His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien's mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.
~ Simon Van Booy
I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.
~ Serena Williams
On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.
~ Meg Cabot
Doctor Ambrosius smiled slightly. You and all the others here, are-or rather, one day will be-magicians. Spirit broke into a disbelieving laugh. Right, she said, starting to stand up. Mean, she could deal with; crazy was something else. Thank you, Professor Dumbledore. I hope the train hasn't left yet, because-
~ Mercedes Lackey
On the north side of the train the windows were plastered with snow, and on the south side great clouds of snow were whipped along by a sixty-mile gale. There was snow on top of the train and snow under the train, and all the snow there was left in the
~ Benedict Freedman
The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right
~ Bertrand Russell
Late at night, my friend Boris and I stood by the tracks and the train passed with orange lights in all its windows but not a single passenger head to be seen. Where are the passengers? I asked. The train is empty? Oh, they are there, you just don't see them. They're on the floor. There used to be snipers all along the tracks and so there are stretches of the rails where people all lie down on the floor so they won't be shot.
~ Josip Novakovich
Just a small town girl Livin' in a lonely world She took the midnight train Goin' anywhere.
~ Journey
It was not until the spring of 1859 [two years later] that the children [the survivors of the murdered emigrant train] were officially turned over to the government officials, and bills for their care were made… The policy of letting the government pay seems to have been general…
~ Juanita Brooks
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
~ Judith Guest
Jarena Harban removed a folded handkerchief from the pocket of her frayed cotton skirt and rubbed the smudged train window. Vestiges of cinder and ash stubbornly clung to the outside of the glass, but she could see well enough to determine there were a multitude of people waiting at the train depot. They were mostly white folks, but she spied a few coloreds among the crowd. She swiped the window again, but to no avail. With a defeated shrug, she tucked the cotton square back into her pocket.
~ Judith McCoy Miller
I love to inspire people to train.
~ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
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
Judith you bid $12,000 for the The Train Depot. And the actual retail price is: $11,999. You are over by $1!
~ Bob Barker
Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That?
~ Harper Lee
It had been a long time since I felt the fragrance of summer: the scent of the ocean, a distant train whistle, the touch of a girl's skin, the lemony perfume of her hair, the evening wind, faint glimmers of hope, summer dreams. But none of these were the way they once had been; they were all somehow off, as if copied with tracing paper that kept slipping out of place. -from Hear the Wind Sing
~ Haruki Murakami