High Speed Trains

Famous quotes containing the words high, speed and/or trains:

    “Oh high is the price of parenthood,
    And daughters may cost you double.
    You dare not forget, as you thought you could,
    That youth is a plague and a trouble.”
    —Phyllis McGinley (20th century)

    “No speed of wind or water rushing by
    But you have speed far greater.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Conventions, at the present moment, are really menaced. The most striking sign of this is that people are now making unconventionality a social virtue, instead of an unsocial vice. The switches have been opened, and the laden trains must take their chance of a destination.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)