High Speed Trains

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

    “I asked my mother for fifty cents
    To see the elephant jump the fence.
    He jumped so high he reached the sky,
    And didn’t get back till the Fourth of July.”
    —Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 1–4)

    “Life is too short to waste
    In critic peep or cynic bark,
    Quarrel or reprimand:
    ‘Twill soon be dark;
    Up, heed thine own aim, and
    God speed the mark!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.”
    —Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)