Long Island Rail

Famous quotes containing the words long, island and/or rail:

“We die only once, and it’s for such a long time!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)