Famous quotes containing the words prime, number and/or race:
“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Coles Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.”
—James Weldon Johnson (18711938)