Race Start Sayings

#1. Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.

Robert Kennedy

#2. Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.

William C. Brown

#3. Anyone can start a race, but not everyone crosses the finish line. Certainly, not everyone wins the race.

Paul Silway

#4. And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Hamilton Jordan

#5. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

Chuck Wendig

#6. Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

Ann Coulter

#7. Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.

A. D. Patel

#8. On the day of the race, as I run those very streets, will I be able to fully enjoy this autumn in New York? Or will I be too preoccupied? I won't know until I actually start running. If there's one hard and fast rule about marathons, it's that.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.

Usain Bolt

#10. It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

Megan Whalen Turner

#11. I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.

Ted Ligety

#12. In Christ Jesus, we all start on a level playing field. What we make of ourselves in the Christian race depends entirely upon us.

Pedro Okoro

#13. There's a moment when fingers of heat race through your skin and light your clitoris. You start to get wet and your juices douse the flames of pain and erupt in an all-consuming pleasure. This is the joy of spanking.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

Theodore William Richards

#15. If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Henry Hampton

#16. You can't wait for the race to start to get ready. That's a loss. You must get your mind right before you get to the starting line. Mindset is everything!

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#17. You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

Vivienne Westwood

#18. To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

Shelly Laurenston

#19. It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#20. Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jas's with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, I'll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn.

Louise Rennison

#21. My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic

John Stephen Akhwari

#22. When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

Kimi Raikkonen

#23. I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

Toyin Odutola

#24. Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

Matt Ridley

#25. Many start the race with high energy and vibrant passion, but when they do not move ahead as quickly as they think they should, they lose their zeal and commitment.

Christine Caine

#26. If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.

Tory Nyhaug

#27. I'm always telling the brothers some of those whites are willing to work with us against the pigs. All they got to do is stop talking honky. When the races start fighting, all you have is one maniac group against another.

George Jackson

#28. I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

Nelson Mandela

#29. My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

Jimi Hendrix

#30. It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.

Erykah Badu

#31. It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#32. You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place ...

Dr. Seuss

#33. Roof was a young man radicalized to race hatred who reportedly wanted to start a race war and who killed nine innocent people as his opening salvo. If that's not terrorism, we need to redefine the term.

Anonymous

#34. We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

Murray Walker

#35. Ari looks fiercely resolute. It's the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

Siobhan Davis

#36. I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

Ace Frehley

#37. As I travel around the country, I'm finding a common denominator - people are hurting and going through regardless of race and creed. The common denominators are people HURTING people. The cure also has a common denominator - people start HELPING people.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#38. I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.

Facundo Pieres

#39. Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

Nigel Mansell

#40. The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

Frank Darabont

#41. Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.

John Bevere

#42. I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.

Dean Karnazes

#43. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

Annie F. Downs

#44. From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

Robin S. Sharma

#45. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.

Deena Kastor

#46. I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view.

Tess Gerritsen

#47. It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

Robert D. Hales

#48. If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange diffuse compassion which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the whole human race and start again with amoebas.

Terry Pratchett

#49. There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#50. It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

Jim George

#51. I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point
race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

Molly Ivins

#52. Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.

Shani Davis

#53. In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself.

Alistair Brownlee

#54. Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

Steven Spielberg

#55. You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Brene Brown

#56. American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Margaret Halsey

#57. I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

Paula Radcliffe

#58. If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.

Mardy Grothe

#59. To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

Jean De La Fontaine

#60. He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her , too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.

Alice Hoffman

#61. Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.

Tony Goldwyn

#62. I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

Fabrice Muamba

#63. Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

Robinson Jeffers

#64. Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

Marc Mero

#65. All everyone is trying to do is create a better life for the human race. Why can't everyone stop fighting and start working together to accomplish that?

L.T. Gibbons

#66. If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

Paula Radcliffe

#67. No one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the hole.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#68. This is essentially a people's contest ... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

Abraham Lincoln

#69. The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

Cory Booker

#70. [Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

Mark Steyn

#71. The start is crucial, really, but the entire race is crucial. There is not any room for error. If there is one bad stroke, you regularly lose the race.

Mark De Jonge

#72. I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

Usain Bolt

#73. You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

Joey Logano

#74. He seemed to be a pure racing animal, which explained two of his other peculiar habits: at the start of every race, he'd let out a bloodcurdling shriek, and after he won, he'd roll in the

Christopher McDougall

#75. One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

Alain Prost

#76. We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped.
"With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.

Tim Lebbon

#77. Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#78. We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I go up and introduce myself, and I start making a new friend I wouldn't have done otherwise."

Michael Emerson

#79. But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as unable to define as to guide, the toiler is most heavily handicapped in the very start.

Joshua K. Ingalls

#80. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

IO Tillett Wright

#81. Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.

Timothy Egan

#82. Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.

Gerry Lindgren

#83. If we really want "Racial Harmony" in this country, it is time we start judging individuals by the standards of their behaviors and by the criteria of the law, not by the pigmentation of their skin or the past sins or struggles of their forefathers.

Henry Johnson Jr