Top Steam Quotes
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Clyde Tombaugh
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
John Sexton
Edward Grey 
Townsend Harris 
George William Russell 
James Nasmyth 
Clyde Tombaugh 
Conor Oberst 
Paul Prudhomme 
Anton Chekhov All Steam Quotes
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland 
81% of people like this quote
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon
61% of people like this quote
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher
61% of people like this quote
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Clyde Tombaugh
59% of people like this quote
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
John Sexton
57% of people like this quote
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
John Moody
56% of people like this quote
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
Paul Prudhomme
55% of people like this quote
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
Austin Dobson
55% of people like this quote
Popular Steam Authors
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