Race Quotes

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't need one. But if you're running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.