Quotes by Thackeray, William M.

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Quotations about Trains

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the >>

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through >>

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and >>

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

Thackeray, William M.