Race Quotes
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I would rather have won this race than be president of the United States. (Quote by - Thomas Hicks)
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
I want to win the first race for this team - if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen, there will be reasons for it. (Quote by - Jensen Button)
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half (Quote by - Emmeline Pankhurst)
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.' (Quote by - Rebecca West)
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built. (Quote by - Colin Chapman)
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Quote by - The Bible)
My decision to retire as an F1 race driver has come after some months of deep thought. (Quote by - Olivier Panis)
It was tough but I was able to produce a pretty good performance and I'm ecstatic about the result. (Quote by - Ian Thorpe)
It was Mark's declaration that he was going to stand that ensured there was a contest. (Quote by - Lembit Opik)
Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them. (Quote by - Wally George)
The King in a carriage may ride, And the Beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace (Quote by - Edward Fitzgerald)
It was music to the ears and the eyes! To be on the grid just minutes before the race starts, to see those polished cars and the guys get ready - and then hear the noise as they start their engines... (Quote by - Victoria Beckham)
With the race half gone there is still half the race to go. (Quote by - Murray Walker)
Every oppressed individual, class, race and group begins to form a mental picture of a revolution. (Quote by - Alexander Malina)
Someone suggested that the Jockey Club Race Planning Committee consisted of a table and four chairs - and I bet they've got woodworm. (Quote by - Jenny Pitman)
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority. (Quote by - Franz Boas)
I was not worried even if Michael passed me because I knew we would be strongest at the end of the race. (Quote by - Fernando Alonso)
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. (Quote by - W H Auden)
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
I have a dream, that one day all three of my children will one day, grow up in a society where they are not judged by their race, but by their character. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)
I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race. (Quote by - Mary Docter)
People claim it's racist to raise this issue. It is not. It has nothing to do with race. It's about standing up for the right values. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. (Quote by - Thomas Love Peacock)
The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things. (Quote by - Martha Gellhorn)
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. (Quote by - Steve Prefontaine)
I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure. (Quote by - Valentino Rossi)
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?' (Quote by - Paula Radcliffe)
Until I realised that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. (Quote by - Bruce Springsteen)
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwyn. (Quote by - Gilbert Harding)
If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with 'compelling' reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality. (Quote by - William O Douglas)
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels (Quote by - H A L Fisher)
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again. (Quote by - Ruth First)
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. (Quote by - Avery Brundage)
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (Quote by - H G Wells)
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
The run is now a major event and is tremendous for the city. (Quote by - Michael Le Vell)
My head and my heart are really keen to race, but my body just keeps telling me I haven't done the work. (Quote by - Michael East)
The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims. (Quote by - John Ingalls)
If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine. (Quote by - Rafael Benitez)
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being. (Quote by - Friedrich Otto Hertz)
Today was not about times, it was about getting in there, enjoying the race, and enjoying the atmosphere. (Quote by - Paula Radcliffe)
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. (Quote by - Juan Samaranch)
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
The car was perfect - we were not in danger of losing the race at any time (Quote by - Fernando Alonso)
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles. (Quote by - Barry M. Goldwater)
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
God hath made of one blood all nations of men. (Quote by - Anonymous)
It is 22 weeks until the next race and I am going to come back fitter, more relaxed, more experienced and I will have a better car. (Quote by - Lewis Hamilton)
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The human race has improved everything, but the human race. (Quote by - Adlai E Stevenson)
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. (Quote by - Henry L Mencken)
The feathered race with pinions skim the air- Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear. (Quote by - John Hookham Frere)
My goal is not to be a race-car driver. The reason I'm racing is because I enjoy being in the car and being on the edge. (Quote by - Jacques Villeneuve)
That was the most nerve-wracking race of my career. The more you win, the more the pressure mounts. (Quote by - James Hickman)
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. (Quote by - Dan Aykroyd)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. (Quote by - Rich Cook)
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. (Quote by - George Aiken)
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
It is a form of racism to say that those who criticize the violence and theft of the Sharon regime are antiSemitic. (Quote by - Pollie Silabic)
I'm going to go into the race to be as competitive as possible. I'm not going to take a step back and think I'm just entering for the fun of it; I'm going to go in there to achieve the best result I possibly can. (Quote by - Shelley Rudman)
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things (Quote by - Georg Lichtenberg)
We may only be a small race, but there's divinity in our cricket. (Quote by - Thomas Kenneally)
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people. (Quote by - Andrew Young)
When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. (Quote by - Louis Mountbatten)
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or colour is like living in Alaska and being against snow. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
A pheasant jumped out of a tree and he [the chestnut] whipped round that quick that even the horse fell over. - explaining a bizarre race event! (Quote by - Frankie Dettori)
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (Quote by - The Bible)
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised (Quote by - Robert Hutchins)
That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are. (Quote by - Neve Campbell)
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points. (Quote by - David Coulthard)
Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. (Quote by - C S Lewis)
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge. (Quote by - John Snagge)
A great library contains the diary of the human race. (Quote by - George Dawson)
Well, we now have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. (Quote by - Murray Walker)
Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise' (Quote by - Robert Lloyd)
Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy. (Quote by - Colin Chapman)
It's not the right way to win my first race of the year. (Quote by - Michael Schumacher)
