Thunder Mountain Railroad

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

    “It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
    And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “And as it measured in her calipers,
    The mountain stood exalted in its place.
    So love will take between the hands a face. . . .”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)