Famous quotes containing the words race and/or held:
“[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.”
—James A. Garfield (18311881)
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was trembling, because Id got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: All right, then, Ill go to helland tore it up.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)