Quotes about race
race sky cities
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals. Victor Hugo
race extinction possibility
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. Vernor Vinge
race ants curious
Ants are a curious race Robert Frost
race joy bedroom
I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom, Rita Levi-Montalcini
race pay lasts
They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place. Richard Thompson
race humanity enemy
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it. Richard Wagner
race goal people
The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation. Richard E. Byrd
race layers our-town
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. Thornton Wilder
race atheism wickedness
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. Thomas Paine
race earth common
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
race taste certain
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. Thomas Hood
race laughing agents
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. Timothy Leary
race stories corporations
The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us. Tom Robbins
race years two
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later. Tom Kristensen
race natural-instinct avoiding
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. Steve Redgrave
race class piano
You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift. Steve Harvey
race firsts remember
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell. Usain Bolt
race ethnicity should-have
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. Susana Martinez
race air self
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them. Steven Pressfield
race doors enemy
If the enemy opens the door, you must race in. Sun Tzu
race law people
An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse. Strom Thurmond
race
Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race? Ta-Nehisi Coates
race bridges people
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. T. D. Jakes
race creative mind
Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius. T. S. Eliot
race culture majority
Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down. Taylor Branch
race government doors
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
race religion wizards
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. Umberto Eco
race coward flags
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
race leader fields
The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants Rick Warren
race blood annabeth
Race you to the road?" I said. "You are so going to lose." She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her. For once, I didn't look back. Rick Riordan
race rivers water
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out. Vikram Seth
race ideas religion
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality. Robert Green Ingersoll
race light joy
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.