Race Quotes

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

I believe a person regardless of race should get the job.

Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

When today’s race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

I think we have gotten through those brain dead moments on both our parts. Now we just love to race one another hard and clean.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'

You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.