Races Quotes

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

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

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.