Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    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)

    There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
    —C.S. (Clive Staples)