Freight Quotes

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.