Mississippi Valley Railroad

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi, valley and/or railroad:

    “Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
    —Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)

    “Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward the Light Brigade!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “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)