Race Quotes - Page 37

• Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

  Margaret Atwood

  Differences, Language, Consciousness

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “The Edible Woman”, New Canadian Library

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• Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Brother, Husband

  Male and Female introduction (1955 edition)

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• It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

  Thomas Merton

  Mistake, Destiny, Members

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.154, Image

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• Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

  Mark McKinnon

  Night, Media, Gone

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• Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3053, Library of Alexandria

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• For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing that makes it easier is thinking of how certain struggles make other accomplishments mean so much.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

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• I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

  Nikola Tesla

  Years, Vivid Imagination, Long

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• The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Important, Agents

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

  Fanny Burney

  Imagination, Eccentric, Reason

  Fanny Burney (1793). “Evelina; Or, A Young Lady's Entrance Into the World ...”, p.144

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• I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Fall, Games

  Jimmie Johnson during Phoenix II Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. November 12, 2006.

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• I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Proud

  "Johnson, Hendrick, Knaus - champions press conference, part 1". Press conference, www.motorsport.com. November 17, 2008.

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• If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

  Danica Patrick

  Airplane, Men, Thinking

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• Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

  Hillary Clinton

  Struggle, Best Effort, America

  "EXCLUSIVE: Hillary arrives by private jet for Ferguson-area speech on race relations and Charleston 'terrorism' - but friend of Michael Brown hammers her: 'Where you been? It's been ten months, girl!'" by David Martosko, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 23, 2015.

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• My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

  Reggie Bush

  Horse, Winning, Goal

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• Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

  Kevin Harvick

  Car, Drivers, Nascar

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• On any given day, I don't think there's anybody who can outdrive me. That's the mind set I have going into every race.

  Kevin Harvick

  Thinking, Mind, Given

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• As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

  Kevin Harvick

  Track, Car, Emotion

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• Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

  Sue Bird

  College, Views, People

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• To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mistake, Men, Our World

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• For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race.

  Ray Rice

  Horse, Guy, Yards

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• When I was three years old, I had race-car wallpaper, a race-car bed, race-car toys. That was all I wanted. And nothing has changed. Except I don't have a race-car bed anymore.?

  Joey Logano

  Years, Car, Toys

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• You don't go to a race track to finish second.

  Joey Logano

  Track, Race Track

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• I don't worry about anything but winning races.

  Joey Logano

  Winning, Worry, Winning The Race

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• I have always tried to drive a car that was better than me, and race against people who were better than me. If you are surrounded by people who are as good as you, or not as good, how are you going to learn?

  Joey Logano

  People, Car, Ifs

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• When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

  Joey Logano

  Feelings, Lines, Crosses

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