Quotes about race
race
He's the all-American boy. Six-foot-three, blond-haired, blue-eyed. A race driver. What else can they want?
race should humans
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Italo Calvino
race break-off two
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.
race environmental arms
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves. Jello Biafra
race democracy use
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. Jeannette Rankin
race tortoises joyful
I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise. Jeb Bush
race government issues
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family. Jim Edgar
race adoption african-american
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard. Jennifer Gilmore
race adoption choices
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
race car results
A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car. Jeff Burton
race endeavor humans
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race. Jean-Paul Sartre
race government years
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. George Will
race presidential why-not
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? Jim Hightower
race michigan genuine
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. Jim Harrison
race uncomfortable humans
Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race. Jerry Spinelli
race sea names
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time? Neil Gaiman
race expression civilization
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all. John Muir
race people use
The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there. John Romero
race political gender
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. John Podhoretz
race years wicked
Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God. Martin Luther
race honor important
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.
race energy habit
Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor. Marilyn French
race government air
Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives. Michelle Malkin
race people world
I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world. Michael Phelps
race racism painful
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends. Sidney Poitier
race years attention
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. Ray Charles
race perfect trying
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it. Sinclair Lewis
race religion crowds
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available. Rajneesh
race goal technique
One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started. Michael Johnson
race life-is take-time
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable. Ted Rall
race heaven progress
Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears! Theophile Gautier
race feet lakes
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race. Theodore Roosevelt
race sin cowardice
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.