Race Quotes · Page 117

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...

— Baz Luhrmann

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

— David Foreman

To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

— Toshihiko Seko

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

— Mariah Carey

I remember feeling my back break and I really didn't know if I'd ever race again.

— Denny Hamlin

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

— Felipe Massa

Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.

— Bob Varsha

It's an amazing experience for me, coming from the F1 environment and to see a race like Le Mans.

— Nico Hulkenberg

“Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink…

— Raquel Cepeda

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to…

— Bill Bradley

When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of…

— Naomi Ragen

The importance of endorsements should not be understated. The party apparatus uniting behind one candidate can often be key in turning a…

— Harry Enten

Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.

— Christian Horner

I used to say, 'Hey, man, what kind of a stupid question is that?' to a newspaperman asking me heavy things right…

— Steve Prefontaine

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how…

— Robin Hobb

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds…

— Bertrand Russell

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Running efficiently demands good technique, and running efficiently for 100 miles demands great technique. But the wonderful paradox of running is that…

— Scott Jurek

To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same…

— Robert Herrick

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork…

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders,…

— Antonin Artaud

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that…

— Izaak Walton

Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But…

— Jack Edmonds

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as…

— Barbara Bergmann

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

— Robert Hughes

Motocross is a contact sport, see you in the first corner.

— Anonymous

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

— Henry Giroux

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

— Jacob Bannon

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

— Frederick Lenz

It is unnatural for drivers and team members to be sitting on their hands when we would usually be racing.

— Christian Horner

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Me racist? The only race I hate is the one you have to run.

— Gabriel Iglesias

It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.

— Karen Chance

“That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

— Aristotle

History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the…

— Chris Gabrieli

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

— Siri Hustvedt

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

— Mike Rounds

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro…

— Bill Cosby

“Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”

— Thornton Wilder

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

— Kate Winslet