Race Quotes
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. Washington
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.Thich Nhat Hanh
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?William Blake 1803
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.Eric Hoffe
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.Jon Bentley
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.Henry Louis Mencken
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.Robert Green Ingersoll
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.William H. Borah
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i. e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.Marcus Terentius Varro
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
