Railway Goods Shed

Famous quotes containing the words railway, goods and/or shed:

“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
And so am come abroad to see the world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Winters know
Easily to shed the snow,
And the untaught Spring is wise
In cowslips and anemonies.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)