Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
    Adam Smith (1723–1790)

    The whole race is a poet that writes down
    The eccentric propositions of its fate.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)