Relay Quotes

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. (Buckminster Fuller)
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness. View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. View quote
Julian Castro
Mountcastle discovered that tactile sensation is made up of several distinct modalities; for example, touch includes... hard pressure on the skin as well as a light brush... He found that each distinct submodality has its own private pathway within the brain and that this segregation is maintained at each relay... View quote
Eric Kandel
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Imagine the books burning. And tapes and films and files, radios and televisions, will all go into that same bonfire. All those libraries and bookstores blazing away in the night. People will attack microwave relay stations. People with axes will chop every fiber-optic cable. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Whenever logical processes of thought are employed - that is, whenever thought for a time runs along an accepted groove - there is an opportunity for the machine. Formal logic used to be a keen instrument in the hands of the teacher in his trying of students' souls. It is readily possible to construct a machine which will manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the clever use of relay circuits. Put a set of premises into such a device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion, all in accordance with logical law, and with no more slips than would be expected of a keyboard adding machine. View quote
Vannevar Bush
I am excited that Tanzania is the only country out of 53 African nations to host the relay. This is a rare opportunity for our nation and a challenge for the government and the people to promote sports. View quote
Ali Mohamed Shein
We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
Life is a relay race that assumes the timely transfer of the torch of life to the next one, having fulfilled its purpose in the chain of generations and to remain in the life of future generations. View quote
Zafar Mirzo
I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely. (Bryn Terfel)
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit. View quote
Charles C. Mann
I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games. View quote
Donovan Bailey
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things. View quote
Eli Roth
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. View quote
Karen Traviss
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. View quote
Martin Jacques
To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. View quote
Oscar Pistorius
Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel. View quote
Todd English
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. View quote
John Lydon
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. View quote
Carl Lewis
It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others. (Marilyn Manson)
History is a relay of revolutions. View quote
Saul Alinsky
dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform. View quote
Don Marquis
I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that. View quote
LeBron James
Local police were separated for me for a moment when activists began to disturb the relay. I was attacked three times. The most terrible moment was when three or four men came to rob the torch, but I couldn't give up. As a torchbearer, that's my duty. View quote
Jin Jing