Race Quotes

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

Do one thing every day that scares you. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

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.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.

Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.