Quotes of: Races Keyword

Slow but sure wins the race.

Traditional

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Johann Georg Hamann

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

Racing Through the Dark

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

Dead Poets Society

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be each other.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

Mark Warkentin

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no ...

Ed Rendell

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

Jenson Button

I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.

Catherine Ndereba

There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now the...

Charlie Pierce

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that sta...

Joe Biden

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Ayrton Senna

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifix...

W.B. Yeats

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

Dale Earnhardt

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the tread...

Drew Carey

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was worki...

Charlie Kimball