Cleveland and Chicago Railway

Famous quotes containing the words cleveland, chicago and/or railway:

    In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people’s office.
    —Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

    Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    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)