Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    The race may or may not be to the swift,
    but tell me, is it likely
    that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)