These Train Track quotes will inspire you. The train track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of rails, fasteners, railroad ties.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging train track quotes, train track sayings, and train track proverbs.
Best Train Track Quotes
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~ Will Rogers
- “A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel maybe you.” ~ Steven Tyler
- “He gathers me up and I’m weightless before he sets me on the railing. He’s the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I’m not afraid of falling. I don’t fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it’s with him.” ~ Lauren DeStefano
- “If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.” ~ Ted Leo, Train track quotes about life
- “I feel quite lost INSIDE myself like I’m looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).” ~ Sabrina Ward Harrison
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“To the pessimist, the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “If you can’t be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.” ~ James Dyson
- “The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his mustache and you’re fussing that he’s tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.” ~ Robin McKinley
- “Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.” ~ Ada Louise Huxtable
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“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.” ~ Harriet Tubman
- “RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose, the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It’s not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.” ~ Walter Mosley
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“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free but it can’t go anywhere.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” ~ Harriet Tubman
- “There’s a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It’s called a ‘public nuisance.’ I wouldn’t mind being called that for my life’s work.” ~ Vito Acconci
- “September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.” ~ Catherynne M. Valente