Tramway Quotes & Sayings

An individualist town councillor will walk along the municipal pavement, lit by municipal gas and cleansed by municipal brooms with municipal water and - seeing by the municipal clock in the municipal market, that he is too early to meet his children coming from the municipal school, hard by the country lunatic asylum and the municipal hospital, will use the national telegraph system to tell them not to walk through the municipal park, but to come by the municipal tramway to meet him in the municipal reading-room, by the municipal museum, art-gallery, and library, where he intends ... to prepare his next speech in the municipal town hall in favor of the nationalization of canals and in increase of Government control of the railway system. "Socialism, Sir," he will say, "don't waste the time of a practical man by your fantastic absurdities. Self-help, Sir, individual self-help, that's what has made our city what it is. — Sidney Webb

I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely.
"I'll wait for you," I told him. — Kristen Simmons

In that way you recall, suddenly, sharply, in daylight, a trace of a dream of the previous night
but even as you recall it, it begins to fade. — Joyce Carol Oates

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching. — Jeff Jarvis

What you fill your days with, fills your days. — Marty Rubin

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. — Odilon Redon

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. — Christopher Hampton

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is. — Woody Allen

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?' — David Cameron

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes ... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes. — Francis Ford Coppola

Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress. — Lois Kelly

But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians. — Brother Andrew

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. — Ouida

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part. — Henry Ward Beecher

They rode the tramway to the top of the mountains, watched the watermeleon-colored sunsets, and danced in Mom's little studio to Beatles songs. — Ava Dellaira

[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky
'the hem of heaven. — Nancy Horan

Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving. — Kim Dae-jung