Relay Race Quotes

#1. She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

Gretchen McNeil

#2. God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

Mary Pride

#3. It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.

Gavin Rossdale

#4. Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Nguyen Quyen

#5. We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead.

Nicholas Kristof

#6. History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

Hayao Miyazaki

#8. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment ... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe

R. Buckminster Fuller

#9. High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor ...

Milan Kundera

#10. I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Romain Gary

#11. He was witnessing an insane relay race in which each contestant ran faster and longer than the last, arriving nowhere but his own destruction

John Le Carre

#12. I don't shoot people with Korans. I'd like to, but I don't

Chris Kyle

#13. We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.

Mick Jagger

#14. Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

Rafael Benitez

#16. If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

Nancy Gibbs

#17. Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

Friedrich Schiller

#18. The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Johanna Paungger

#19. Christian life isn't a one-person race. It's a relay. You are not alone; you're part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.

Christine Caine

#20. I should look like someone I would want to see.

Diane Williams

#21. I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Baha'u'llah

#22. Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.

Cath Crowley

#23. Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Solon

#24. Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#25. Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.

Stacy London

#26. I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

Blanka Vlasic

#27. People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Martina Navratilova

#28. Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

Dick Gregory