Race Quotes - Page 135

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.