The Atlantic Coast Line may refer to:
- The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, in the United States
- The Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom
The name was also used in advertising by the Wilmington and Raleigh and the Wilmington and Manchester railroads in the United States.
Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, coast and/or line:
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There’s a line between love and fascination that’s hard to see on an evening such as this.”
—Ned Washington (1901–1976)