Thunder Mountain Railroad

Famous quotes containing the words thunder, mountain and/or railroad:

    “Of late, eternal Condor years
    So shake the very Heaven on high
    With tumult as they thunder by,
    I have no time for idle cares
    Through gazing on the unquiet sky.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “The mountain and the squirrel
    Had a quarrel,
    And the former called the latter “Little Prig”;”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “People who 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)