Race Quotes · Page 69

I care about 'RuPaul's Drag Race' a lot. It's given me a career as an artist.

— Alaska

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

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

— Ari Fleischer

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

— Khem Veasna

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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Karen Chance

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

— Siri Hustvedt

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again,…

— Lance Armstrong

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

— Salman Rushdie

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for…

— Anushka Sharma

Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords,…

— J. Frank Dobie

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all,…

— Karl Marx

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and…

— Eugene V. Debs

I'm this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I'm…

— Rachel Dolezal

My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…

— Edward Bellamy

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks…

— David H. Koch

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the…

— Laurence Binyon

Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and…

— Pope Francis

“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are…

— Adam Rutherford

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

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

— Mike Rounds

The long run is the single most important ingredient to marathon success.

— Bob Glover

In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team.

— Jimmie Johnson

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

— Valentino Rossi

Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.

— Usain Bolt

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

— Jim Hightower

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

— Amby Burfoot

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

— Sebastian Vettel

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

— Susie Wolff

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

— George W. Bush

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

— Pat Buckley

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

— Claudia Black

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

— Henry Ford