Race Quotes

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
Jack Nicholson

Time, Money, Against

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Julie Andrews

Life, Good, Great

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
Terry Pratchett

Amazing, Someone, Different

My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.
Mario Andretti

Tell, Last, Along

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
Mario Andretti

Car, Cars, Track

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.
Jimmy Carter

Again, Effort, Actually

Plodding wins the race.
Aesop

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams

Power, Science, Human

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Leadership, Eyes, Path

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Dorothy Allison

Inside, Class, Sexuality

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle

Time, Human, System

I've got to win every race.
Dale Earnhardt

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
Dale Earnhardt

Young, Older, Guys

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
Dale Earnhardt

Making, Striving, Contender

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
W. H. Auden

Faith, God, History

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen

Human, Resign, Membership

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino

Human, Living, Defined

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Morning, Strong, Training

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.
Peter Steele

Hate, Human, Therefore

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia

Power, Society, Care

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
Joe Manchin

Life, Child, Parent

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden

Age, Money, Society

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp

Human, Brothers, Sisters

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Richard M. DeVos

Battle, Win, Impossible

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
Audre Lorde

Time, Sex, Long

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Henry Louis Gates

Important, Through, Here

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
Neale Donald Walsch

Great, History, Sadness

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Respect, Society, May

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Earl Warren

Age, Children, Feeling

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.
Henry Louis Gates

Work, Problems, Here

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