Race Quotes - Page 18

• Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, Childhood, Use

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.
  The race is long and, in the end,
  it's only with yourself.

  Mary Schmich

  Long, Scare, Ends

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.

  Ann Coulter

  Player, College, People

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• the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

  Becky Freeman

  Teenage, Brain, Body

  Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press

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• God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Men, Yellow

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• ..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

  James A. Garfield

  Slavery, Remember, Citizenship

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.790, Best Books on

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• [It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

  James A. Garfield

  Dream, Eye, Men

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Ties

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Organization, Needs

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.213, Read Books Ltd

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• The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Mixtures, Navigation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.22

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• Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tyrants, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.542, Рипол Классик

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• In politics, people throw around the word 'friend' so much it often has little real meaning. This is not one of those times, when I call Jeb Bush my friend, I mean he is someone I like, care for and respect. He and I have worked closely together for many years, on issues big and small. He is a passionate advocate for what he believes, and I welcome him to the race.

  Marco Rubio

  Real, Believe, Mean

  "Marco Rubio sent praising note to Jeb Bush ahead of his announcement" by Serafin Gómez, www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, No Friends, Humans

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• Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen, which will conquer the world.

  Ed Wood

  Home, Hunting, Animal

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• Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?

  Ed Wood

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Respect, Queens, Believe

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• There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation
  as immigration law.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Law, People, Mind

  "Whose Country Is This?", Good Housekeeping Magazine, February, 1921.

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• Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
  arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Islands, Civilization

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

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• There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Guides, Ifs

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• Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Philosophical, Unique

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Life, Weekend, Thinking

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• We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Practice, Benefits

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of
  his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

  Herodotus

  Men, Thinking, People

  Herodotus (2015). “The Histories Book 3: Thaleia”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Numbers, Tragedy

  "We'll Never Conquer Space". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke first published in "Science Digest" (June 1960); later published in Arthur C. Clarke "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible", 1962, in Arthur C. Clarke "Voices from the Sky", 1965, and in Arthur C. Clarke "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998", 1999.

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