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:
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places,”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.