Rock Island Railroad

Famous quotes containing the words rock, island and/or railroad:

    “In Little Rock the people bear
    Babes, and comb and part their hair
    And watch the want ads, put repair
    To roof and latch.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
    mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... no other railroad station in the world manages so mysteriously to cloak with compassion the anguish of departure and the dubious ecstasies of return and arrival. Any waiting room in the world is filled with all this, and I have sat in many of them and accepted it, and I know from deliberate acquaintance that the whole human experience is more bearable at the Gare de Lyon in Paris than anywhere else.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)