“When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.”
“She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. to hell with that, she thought--and never worried about it again.”
“Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. ”
“Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.”
“... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.”
“Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow. .”