Race Quotes · Page 63

“Runners don’t just run to strengthen their bodies, they run to strengthen their spirits.”

— Toni Sorenson

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

— Herbert Hoover

“Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.”

— Leonard Michaels

You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.

— Ryuho Okawa

“Has ‘crunk’ achieved true word status yet? Are we there yet, as a race of sentient beings?”

— Hannah Johnson

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

— Sean Astin

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

— Eric Hoffer

Congratulations on running a marathon without having to stop for a heart attack.

— Anonymous

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western…

— Mahatma Gandhi

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

— Will Rogers

“Potentials well expressed are the breeding grounds for greatness and success irrespective of whether we are white or black.”

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate…

— Stanislav Grof

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that…

— Edwin Markham

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

— Preston Manning

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of…

— Lou Reed

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money…

— Emile Henry Gauvreau

“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police…

— Jesmyn Ward

The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can…

— Zeno of Elea

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking…I knew I should not find in any…

— Mark Twain

Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big…

— Gene Roddenberry

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal…

— Liza Mundy

When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and…

— Zig Ziglar

I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas…

— Grete Waitz

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting,…

— Jason Priestley

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

— Dick Morris

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

— Anonymous

Anybody who says the Olympics is just another race is not being honest.

— Denise Lewis

I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

— James E. Faust

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

— Ron Delany

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

— Francis Lieber

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

— Harry Redknapp

Singapore is a pretty special race with it being held at night; it makes a great show for the fans.

— Romain Grosjean

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

— Oscar Robertson

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

— John Edgar Wideman

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

— Alexander Rossi

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

— Homer

I need to go out there and run my own race, and have fun with it.

— Bubba Wallace

Somehow when I am at the racetrack, I don't really realise what is happening and I just focus on the job.

— Charles Leclerc