Quotes on Race

Plodding wins the race.

Author: Aesop

Slow but steady wins the race.

Author: Aesop

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

Author: Jean Alesi

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

Author: Lamar Alexander

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

Author: Fred Allen

Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.

Author: Michael Andretti

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

Author: Michael Andretti

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Author: Dan Aykroyd

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Author: Lynn Barber

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Author: Amanda Beard

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

Author: Catharine Beecher

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Author: Joseph Brodsky

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

Author: Winston Churchill

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Author: David Deutsch

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

Author: Mary Docter

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

Author: K. Drexler

I've got to win every race.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

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

Author: Dale Earnhardt

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

Author: Michael East

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

Author: Michael East

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

Author: Michael East

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

Author: Joely Fisher

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

Author: Cathy Freeman

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Author: Marcus Garvey

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Author: William Gladstone

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Author: Ian Hacking

Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun.

Author: Katherine Harris

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

Author: Eric Heiden

This can not be about a race to the bottom.

Author: Alexis Herman

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

Author: Jim Hightower

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

Author: Baron Hill

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

Author: Damon Hill

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.

Author: Charles Houston

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

Author: Zora Hurston

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Author: Aldous Huxley

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Author: Elizabeth Janeway

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.

Author: Tom Jenkinson

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

Author: Chief Joseph

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

Author: Walter Lang

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

Author: David Letterman

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

Author: Joanna Levesque

Slow and steady wins the race.

Author: Robert Lloyd

It could potentially be a very competitive race.

Author: Bill Luther

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

Author: Hermann Maier

If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.

Author: Robert McChesney

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

Author: Nelson Miles

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

Author: Shannon Miller

I never though much about race.

Author: Thelonious Monk

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

Author: Dick Morris

We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

Author: Jerry Moss

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

Author: Constance Motley

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

Author: Constance Motley

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Author: Audie Murphy

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

Author: Jerry Nachman

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Author: Marvin Olasky

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Author: Ovid

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

Author: Donald Pleasence

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

Author: Dan Rather

Every race is totally different.

Author: Bill Rodgers

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Author: Bill Rodgers

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

Author: J. Rushton

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

Author: J. Rushton

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

Author: J. Rushton

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

Author: J. Rushton

That's our race. That's our playoffs.

Author: Tim Salmon

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Author: Richard Savage

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Author: Peter Shaffer

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Author: Bill Shoemaker

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

Author: Frank Shorter

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

Author: Mark Spitz

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

Author: John Surtees

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Author: Michael Tippett

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Author: Lily Tomlin

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Author: Mark Twain

With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

Author: Murray Walker

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

Author: Johnny Weissmuller

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Author: Ida Wells

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

Author: Ida Wells

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Author: Vivienne Westwood

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

Author: Wendell Willkie