Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grover Cleveland

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Grover Cleveland

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

Groucho Marx

TV is the rat race of the century.

Graham Greene

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

Gerald Vizenor

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Harriet Martineau

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Hugo Chavez

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,

Howard Zinn

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

Howard Zinn

...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Kyle Orton

I don't think this is going to be a race in our division. I think it's going to be a marathon.

He's in the race now. There's more of this to come.

If he's got a lot of maidens, he can win a lot of races. To win the meet, you have to win 10, 12, or 14 races with maidens.

Jim Petro

I can't think of any reason in the world why I would step away from the race.

Colin Edwards

I can win a race before the end of the season

Roger Penske

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.

Jeff Gordon

It was a long day. I think we had a shot a top 10 with that tore-up race car.

Larry Sabato

Warner is the reason this race is essentially tied,

Garth Stein

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

Garth Stein

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

Garth Stein

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

Gail Devers

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

Fernando Alonso

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

Fernando Alonso

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

Fernando Alonso

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

Ferdinand Porsche

Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well.

Fernando Pessoa

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

Fanny Burney

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Dan Wilson

It's a completely different race if we win today. Completely different.

Ian Hacking

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Collectively she's taken a lot of time off her race.

Huston Smith

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

Hunter S. Thompson

In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.