Race Quotes

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?