Race Quotes

James agee - in every child who is born, no matter what...
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer, The Odyssey
Katherine anne porte - defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought...
H. l. mencken - any man who afflicts the human race with ideas...
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.
Robert Frost
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Ecclesiastes 9: 11
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Henry James
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.
Cornelius Stam
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
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Cicero
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Sir Winston Churchill
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?
William Blake 1803
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
Jim Grue
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Mackay
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
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
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Jon Bentley
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
Cicero
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.
Anne
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Johathan Edwards
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
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
Kahlil Gibran
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.
Dame Rebecca West
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
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
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