Race Quotes

Proverbs 47 - 8 - wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to...
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
Ernest hemingway - grace under pressure....
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
Katherine Anne Porte
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
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