Famous quotes containing the words line and/or passenger:
“Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, Self negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse. Mr. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of timeNone know it but to love it, None name it but to praise.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (18761947)