Switchback Gravity Railroad

Famous quotes containing the words switchback, gravity and/or railroad:

    “Every child has an inner timetable for growth—a pattern unique to him. . . . Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.”
    —Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)

    “Grown beyond nature now, soft food for worms,
    They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    “This I saw when waking late,
    Going by at a railroad rate,
    Looking through wreaths of engine smoke
    Far into the lives of other folk.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)