Race Quotes

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
Robert Griffin III

Life, Religion, Politics

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
Robert Griffin III

Parents, Big, Color

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. Henry

State, West, East

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
Edward Thorndike

Same, Another, Minds

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike

Number, Evolution, Speed

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
Davy Jones

Put, Weather, Around

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Andrew Motion

Time, History, Poetry

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
David Cronenberg

Time, History, Sex

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
Arabella Weir

Education, Good, Why

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
Roger Bannister

Great, Simple, Wanted

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
Roger Bannister

Another, Again, Days

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.
Roger Bannister

Time, Strong, Bad

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.
Sebastian Vettel

Car, Proud, Here

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.
Sebastian Vettel

Great, Happy, Together

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.
Sebastian Vettel

Home, Give, Simply

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
Eric Ries

Future, Job, Play

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman

Ran, Surrounded

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
Cathy Freeman

Real, Last, Olympics

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.
Rory McIlroy

Money, Living, Play

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
Catherine Bell

Love, Computers, Big

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
Charles Hamilton Houston

Problem, Rather, United

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.
Joshua Foer

Remember, Play, Year

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
Paul Walker

Young, Wanted, Since

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Time, History, Whatever

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins

Education, Family, Time

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
Fuzzy Zoeller

Family, Food, Nothing

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.
Charles Kennedy

Human, Member, Fully

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Small, America, Ways

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
Janis Ian

Music, School, Black

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Freya Stark

Family, Human, Soul

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