Famous quotes containing the words providence and, providence, boston and/or railroad:
“I dont believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)
“Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and aloneGOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wise and religiousbut let me be MAN: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to theegive me some companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our shadows lengthen as the sun goes down.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Tonight I appear for the first time before a Boston audience4,000 critics.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors cant sayI never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
—Harriet Tubman (18211913)