Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
“I sought trains; I found passengers.”
— Paul Theroux, book The Great Railway Bazaar
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 1.
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American travel writer and novelist 1941Related quotes
Daniel McCallum (1815–1878) Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 51-52 about the "System of reports and checks"; Partly cited in Chandler (1977, p. 103)
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Source: The Faerie Queene
“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
On Extended Wings (1985)
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) French painter (1812-1867)
as quoted in Barbizon days, Millet-Corot-Rousseau-Barye by Charles Sprague Smith, A. Wessels Company, New York, July 1902, p. 141
Th. Roussseau took little part in the French art-discussions of the day between Classicists and Romanticists, in the 1830's
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“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
Amicum qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 3
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“Absolutely, and in all respects!” declared Cugel. “Recognizing, of course, that these fundamental verities vary from region to region, and even from person to person.”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 3, section 2, "Faucelme"
