World Race Walking

Famous quotes containing the words world, race and/or walking:

    “It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

    “For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)