Race Quotes · Page 111

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

— Denise Lewis

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

— Ron Delany

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

— Ahmad Alaadeen

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

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

— Thomas Hood

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

— Amanda Beard

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

— Mary Pride

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

— Maya Angelou

It's been nice to hang out with my friends in the sprint car world just because a lot of drivers in the…

— Kyle Larson

We're all trying to catch up with Beyonce. We're all running a race, and Beyonce is up there, and we're all just…

— Jessica Williams

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version…

— Chet Faker

No American of any race or ethnic group is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus does not discriminate, it affects everyone.

— Young Kim

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like…

— Ian Thorpe

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,…

— D. H. Lawrence

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes,…

— Henry David Thoreau

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,…

— Alan Bullock

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a…

— Marvin Minsky

Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and…

— Wesley Morris

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have…

— Ellen G. White

Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one…

— Sunday Adelaja

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should…

— Marley Dias

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

— Naomi Campbell

I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.

— Romain Grosjean

Rallying is a sport in which accidents do happen. You have to respect the conditions you face.

— Colin McRae

Motorsport gave me a purpose. It gave me a reason to overcome my condition.

— Nicolas Hamilton

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

— Amby Burfoot

I love Kim Chi the drag queen from 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' but I'm not sure about the food.

— Gus Kenworthy

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

— Julian May

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my…

— Brad Grey

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.

— Guy Martin

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

— John Piper

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

— Shirley MacLaine

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

— Lando Norris

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

— Bryan Fuller

Williams has a long history of nurturing young drivers at the start of their F1 careers.

— Lance Stroll

Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

— Tavis Smiley