I was 16. In the middle of the night, I took a taxi to the Detroit train station - or maybe it was the Pontiac train station? - and got on a train to Chicago, then transferred to a train to San Diego where my boyfriend was living at the time.
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Related Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra... WERNER HERZOG No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where ... MARY ALLSEBROOK Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to th... TOM CLANCY forever can never be long enough for me to feel that i've had long enough with you TRAIN Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star? TRAIN It was so violent that the officers had to flee the train station and drew their guns and shot in th... JOERN BRO Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, took the midnight train going anywhere... Ju... JOURNEY Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW As long as you know in which station and at what hour you should wait, which train to take and if ne... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I took the PATH train in, and I work next to the World Trade Center. The PATH station smelled like p... JUSTIN YOUNG I think we seem to be on the same train. I think we left the station. Let's make it to the next stop... LEE IELPI When you are on a railway station platform waiting for the train that is due, and when you come to k... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time ... DEYTH BANGER The crew was whistling before impact and put the train into an emergency brake application. Unfortun... GUS MELONAS If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a ... SUNDAY ADELAJA At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station An... OGDEN NASH We are supposed to charge $4 per ride. But if a train arrived, we simply took them and got them on t... DAN BRUCKER It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it. MARK DAVID CHAPMAN It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that... LISA KLEYPAS They had a private train car to go to Colorado for their honeymoon. They stayed a little long at the... MIKE DOHERTY I believe this train is already out of the station, and I believe us hopping on board is wise. SEAN REILLY The train is leaving the station. If diplomacy fails here, we will have to look at different options... KENNETH BACON The youthful stationmaster wore a Blue Spot on his uniform and remonstrated with the driver that the... JASPER FFORDE I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a ... RONALD BIGGS At this point, we are checking things off the list. The train has parked at the station, and it's a ... MATT JONES Death is the station, where we have to change to the next train. The appearance of the vehicle is ch... KAZIMIERZ MATAN I'm hoping someone from Argentina is going to pick me up at the train station. If not, I'm in troubl... CLYDE GETTY Man who is travelling on a train has a much more chance to be wiser than the man who is sitting on a... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train mysel... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at... JAMES PATTERSON It's a unique bar. The room was originally a 1910 train station passenger lounge, and it's got a 35-... KARL PASTIE I didn't train for powerlifting. I trained as a bodybuilder. I had to train to stress the muscle... LEE HANEY The train is coming into the station fast, and if I were the Supreme Court I would stand far back, PAMELA KARLAN I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg... SYDNEY BRENNER Besides half the town (with a population of 2,100), we have to evacuate facilities like the train st... EDUARD KAMMERER The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. G. K. CHESTERTON I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off. CLIFFORD IRVING The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The train was already crowded by the time I got on. I did get a seat, but after that, all of the sea... KATHY MASH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES They [Dubai] didn't take me up on it, so as far as I'm concerned, the train has left the station. REP. PETE KING Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it ... JOHN LASSETER There is a real sense that the train has left the station, and that there is going to be a pretty si... IAN JOHNSON [On April 12, 1999, missiles blasted apart a passenger train in southern Serbia, killing at least 10... WESLEY CLARK I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like... KATE MOSS The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game--it was a modified version of the ga... AMOR TOWLES Train, train, train otherwise you would miss a train of body fitness. DR HITESH C SHETH I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty g... MALUMA I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l... ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ I looked back and it looked like the train was right next to me. JOEY SUMMERVILLE The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck. JOHN HICKENLOOPER Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together... JOSHUA LEONARD Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I h... BROCK LESNAR I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. CHARLIE SHEEN The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. ... RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI Life is like a train going in circles, the train is comfortable - it has nice scenery, it provides w... NIKKI ROWE When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York. DAVID SELBY It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though... YANN MARTEL Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Tr... NICK CANNON I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young ... MIRIAM MARGOLYES The driver was unaware of the train. BRIT MCLIN The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards ... HENRY LAWSON There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had co... GARY YOUNG The vision is to do this as a transit village. Here you have what I think is the perfect situation -... LO IACONO was obscured by equipment needed to operate the train. DAVID POPE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL My son and I would train together in the afternoons when he got home from school and I got home from... DONNA FREEMAN Win, lose or draw, this strategy is already on the map for the other side. They're not going to slow... KRISTINA WILFORE I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. YOGI BERRA By the time the (tornado) sirens started going off, it was at our back door. I didn't hear a train s... BETTY SISK The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER It wasn't a game. He wasn't trying to beat the train. It was an accident. SAMANTHA SMITH We don't know if the train hit the tree, or the tree hit the train or they hit each other at the sam... DAN BRUCKER It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ev... CHARLES TURNER It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ev... CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Train our children to love God. DANIEL H. HILL If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it... DOUG AITKEN Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself. A. P. GOUTHEY The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them fare... EDUARDO GALEANO I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I... CARLI LLOYD There was no trauma to support he was struck by the train. LT. CYNDY WISER I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only ... 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ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... 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ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ELIZABETH GASKELL