Average Race Speed

Famous quotes containing the words average, race and/or speed:

“It’s not that we want the political jobs themselves ... but they seem to be the only language the men understand. We don’t really want these $200 a year jobs. But the average man doesn’t understand working for a cause.”
—Jennie Carolyn Van Ness (b. c. 1890–?)

“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)

“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)