Quotes of: Races Keyword

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

David Henry Hwang

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

G. Stanley Hall

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

Paula Radcliffe

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Valentino Rossi

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Samuel Gompers

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Tony McCoy

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Lance Loud

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

Alberto Salazar

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Dick Morris

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Jean Alesi

That's our race. That's our playoffs.

Tim Salmon

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

Alice Paul

I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

Paula Radcliffe

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child ...

Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often see...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost n...

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether y...

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

Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore[...]You can't hate th...

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

Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don’t look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by,” Kerouac wrote. “Trails are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden p...

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

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because ...

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

Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip...

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