Race Quotes
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.John Dryden
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
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
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
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.Josh Billings
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
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
May it not be that, just as we 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.Wystan Hugh Auden
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.Mark Twain
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.Native American Praye
The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.Anthony Klco
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.Alexander Hamilton
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliott
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
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.
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".
Grace under Pressure.Ernest Hemingway
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.Bertrand Russell
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.Karl Shapiro
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.Johathan Edwards
