Famous quotes containing the words city and/or railroad:
“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)