Race Quotes · Page 108

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

— Anonymous

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

— Jenson Button

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I started out as someone who could not run a mile straight. I called myself a 'run/walker.'

— Andi Dorfman

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

— Winston Churchill

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

— Jeff Gordon

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

— Michael Andretti

“Jeff Abbot was once involved in a taxicab race with Charlaine Harris in North Carolina (he did not win).”

— Charlaine Harris

We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I…

— Michael Emerson

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

— William Hazlitt

I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but…

— Fernando Alonso

Driving the No. 26 Sandy Hook School Support Fund Toyota is like nothing I have ever been part of in my NASCAR career.

— Michael Waltrip

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's…

— Bernie Ecclestone

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and…

— Ezra Pound

“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our…

— Beau Lotto

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

— Eric Temple Bell

Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid…

— Dalia Mogahed

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day…

— James Joyce

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy…

— Alfred de Vigny

We are now seeing a movement that wishes to place race back at the forefront of our political thinking and, frighteningly, that…

— Bret Weinstein

You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It…

— John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and…

— Burton Hill

[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“much yourself at that moment. I kept it together at the office but when I got home, Jeremy Peters from the New…

— Donna Brazile

I'm a runner by hobby and by nature of stress relief and staying fit.

— Kate Gosselin

I have a big following in Holland and I think they will come to a lot of the races.

— Jos Verstappen

I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.

— Nico Hulkenberg

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

— Jim Harrison

I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but the one who caught it chased it too.

— Jeromy Shingongo

Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

— Mark Twain

I think that 'Drag Race' would certainly let a straight guy compete in drag.

— Courtney Act

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

— Ayrton Senna

If I don't get a race deal then I expect to be a test driver for a top team.

— Felipe Massa

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

— Michael East

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

— George Crabbe

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

— Mario Andretti

I'm not prejudice but if I had to hate one race it would be Nascar.

— Romany Malco

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

— Benjamin Disraeli