Race Quotes - Page 27

• Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

  Richard Powers

  Men, White Man, Luxury

  Richard Powers (2004). “The Time of Our Singing: A Novel”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.

  Charles Sheldon

  Moon, Sea, World

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• Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

  Michael Johnson

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

  Michael Johnson

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

  Michael Johnson

  Athlete, Competition, Tasks

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Thinking, Important, Mixed Race

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• I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.

  Nelson Piquet

  Mother, Europe, Car

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• I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

  Bobby Rahal

  Sports, Sleep, Night

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• What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

  Bobby Rahal

  Sports, Years, People

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• I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

  Michael Tippett

  Curious, Humanist

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• You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

  Mark Webber

  Dad, Two, Australia

  "Mark Webber: I'm ready to have another bloody good crack at it". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Divorce, Knowledge, Mean

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• I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  Ted Turner

  Thoughtful, World, Want

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• The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

  Oscar Straus

  Country, Father, Rocks

  Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spiritual, Book, Communication

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.16

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• Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

  Edward Young

  Doe, Glory, Narcissus

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 4, l. 86

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• Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Men, August

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

  Francis Bacon

  Earth, Crime, Intemperance

  "Temperance sermons, delivered in response to an invitation of the National temperance society and publication house". Book by National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873.

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• If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

  Unknown

  Bible, Jesus, Men

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• Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

  Edward Young

  Men, Looks, Fame

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.108

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• The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

  Jack London

  Night, Civilization, Primitive

  Jack London (2015). “The Scarlet Plague”, p.12, Booklassic

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• That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you have the time, and the security, you might not want to do it. You’re in a race against your own enthusiasm. Don’t put it off because someone told you it’s never too late. That’s the worst lie. It’s never too late today, but it’s often too late tomorrow.

  Stephen Elliott

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Long, Justice

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books

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• We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.

  Julian Huxley

  Spiritual, People, Challenges

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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