American Race Walking

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

    In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
    Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    Many times man lives and dies
    Betweeen his two eternities,
    That of race and that of soul,
    And ancient Ireland knew it all.
    Whether man die in his bed
    Or the rifle knocks him dead,
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    O Lord! I don’t know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)