World Road Race

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

    It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James (1842–1910)

    It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)