Famous quotes containing the words american, race and/or walking:
“The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow—one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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.)
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)