Atlantic Coast Line

The Atlantic Coast Line may refer to:

  • The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, in the United States
  • The Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom

The name was also used in advertising by the Wilmington and Raleigh and the Wilmington and Manchester railroads in the United States.

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, coast and/or line:

    “Boys hide in lunging cubes
    Crouching to explode,
    Beyond the Atlantic skies,
    With cheerful cries
    Their barking tubes
    Upon the German toad.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)