Sam Roberts > Quotes

“The Milky Way has gone a little sour.”
― Sam Roberts

“garment district”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“The Daily Telegraph eviscerated the American poet Laura Riding”
― Sam Roberts, Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

“Beneath the filth, the sky was in such good shape that only five gallons of paint were needed to restore it.”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“New York City”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“glorious automat, full of the sound of nickels”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“Obituaries commemorate a life at the point where it is completed by death. Yet the completion is also depletion”
― Sam Roberts, Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

“meeting place “under the clock,”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“Daniel Chester French’s sculpture of the “seated Lincoln,” the model for the Lincoln Memorial in”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“(this was before green meant go),”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“no benches.”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“It is easy to convict a poor man of almost any crime, but it is almost impossible to prosecute the rich man, who with haughty insolence jingles his dollars in his pockets and pulls powerful influences his way.”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“glorious automat, full of the sound of nickels rolling”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“York Public Library,”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

“Jacqueline Onassis, whose devotion to historic preservation saved”
― Sam Roberts, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America