Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Bowyer

When you can leave a race track and there's people in tears because they won and (people) in tears because they got crashed, you know, that's what brings us to the race track.

Clint Eastwood

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

Daniel Defoe

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

Dan Castellaneta

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

David Cameron

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

Dave Matthews

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

David Levithan

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

David Letterman

Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

David Gerrold

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

David Bohm

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

David Berg

God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

Amos Bronson Alcott

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.

Allyson Felix

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

Anthony Daniels

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

Alva Myrdal

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Anna Julia Cooper

A race cannot be purified from without.

Anna Julia Cooper

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'

Anna Deavere Smith

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Anna Deavere Smith

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

Anita Hill

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Ameen Rihani

We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.

Ambrose Bierce

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

Alicia Keys

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

Cokie Roberts

You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate.

Clarence Thomas

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Colin Chapman

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

Colin Chapman

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

Danny Thomas

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

Dante Alighieri

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

Dan Rather

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

Dan Millman

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

Dan Millman

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

Colin Meloy

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.