Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ever since the recall in the 1990s, the races have been pretty nasty.

Race is a social construct, not a scientific classification.

As soon as the temperature comes up tomorrow (Monday), as soon as the wind comes up - bam, we're off to the races again.

A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile

Janica Kostelic

The whole day was confusing, as we were wondering if we were going to race or not. It was windy but it was windy for everyone,

They're too dangerous. I wanted him to race bikes, and he didn't want to.

AMA sanctions races in only one place at a time.

Robby Gordon

You run those types of races all year long, you find yourself sitting here right in the thick of the Chase.

John George

This is a place for everyone of any age, race or religion.

This is a two-heat race. If you don't win the prelims, you don't get to run the finals.

Jamie McMurray

There is not too much that can be said about this weekend's race at Richmond,

Kurt Busch

It's just the same old deal, you go race your car,

It seems like every time she swims that race she sets a record.

Dave Blaney

It's a tough place to race and a tough place to survive.

It was race to get to it, and we just couldn't get to it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do

Herman Kahn

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Herbert Spencer

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

Herman Melville

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

Herb Elliott

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

Henry David Thoreau

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

Jill Scott

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

Jerry Garcia

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

Jeremy Bentham

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

Ernst Haeckel

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

Ethel Waters

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Florence King

In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

Helen Keller

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...

Helen Keller

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

Cassandra Clare

Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Gore Vidal

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.