Glasgow Central

Glasgow Central has more than one meaning:

  • Glasgow Central railway station, a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland
  • Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1885 to 1997 and from 2005 to present

Famous quotes containing the words glasgow and/or central:

    ... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

    There is no such thing as a free lunch.
    —Anonymous.

    An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)