Famous quotes containing the words central, gulf and/or railroad:
“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capriciousthat is, a disease not understoodin an era in which medicines central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of uswild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we cant control.”
—Hugh ONeill (20th century)
“Though the railroad and the telegraph have been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her interior mountains over all these to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)