Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    “This is my father or, maybe,
    It is as he was,

    A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth
    And sea and air.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “A race horse needs only a touch of the whip; a clever person needs only a hint.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses them.... He can take you to a bicycle race and make it raise your hair.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)