Boats Race

Famous quotes containing the words boats and/or race:

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it’s because many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)