American Race Walking

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

    “The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    “No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
    —Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)

    “Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you’d spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?”
    —Louise Lague (20th century)