American Race Walking

Famous quotes containing the words american, race and/or walking:

    Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
    Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    ... never, walking away
    As light fails, to notice the first star
    Pulsing alone in a long shell-coloured sky....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)