Race Quotes
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.Proverbs 47 - 8
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.Anthony Klco
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
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
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
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
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
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
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.Mark Twain
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.Lois McMaster Bujold
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
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.Richard Burton
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.Jim Grue
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.Herbert Westren Turnbull
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
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.
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
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.John Dryden
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.Homer, The Odyssey
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
