Race Quotes · Page 124

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

— NoViolet Bulawayo

Formula One isn't for me. You have to be meticulous and perfect every time.

— Travis Pastrana

If you're going to run a marathon you don't just go out there and run 20 miles on Day 1, you build…

— Chris Sale

The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness.

— Donovan

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

— David Gerrold

We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man…

— Toto Wolff

Cycling always receives a bad name. It's always cycling that's attacked and other sports are never attacked.

— Eddy Merckx

This race is not about me trying to beat John Lewis. It is about carrying the torch and picking up the fight.

— Angela Stanton-King

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have…

— Al Gore

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till…

— Dean Karnazes

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from…

— Sidney Blumenthal

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

— Mike Schultz

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer…

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same…

— Indira Gandhi

“I am a runner. Not an actual runner, like with shoes and sweat. Instead, I specialize in leaving uncomfortable situations with alarming…

— Emma Nichols

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that…

— Tupac Shakur

I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of…

— Angela Davis

But the most horrible spot … lies…immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives…

— Friedrich Engels

“If you keep just close enough for it to see you, it will keep sprinting away. After about ten or fifteen kilometers’…

— Christopher McDougall

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it…

— Mark Twain

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?” “He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is…

— Olga Núñez Miret

When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on…

— Queen Latifah

“Cotter thinks he sees a path to the turnstile on the right. He drains himself of everything he does not need to…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Joey Logano

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

— Louis Zamperini

“I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.”

— Jarod Kintz

As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn't very realistic.

— Michael Waltrip

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

— Bernie Ecclestone

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

— Constance Baker Motley

Souls don't have races or sexes or religions. They are beyond artificial divisions.

— Brian Weiss

The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.

— Tech N9ne

The human race only ever realises how serious things are when it's at your door.

— James Righton

It's frustrating that you only have one or two, maybe three drivers that you can root for who are winning.

— Kevin Magnussen

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

— Milarepa

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

— Lester Holt

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

— Elbert Hubbard

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

— Mika Brzezinski

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

— Winston Churchill

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

— David Letterman