Pumpkin Races

Plodding wins the race. - Aesop

Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop

I've made a career off of Halloween. - Cassandra Peterson

My only career goal is to be a Halloween icon. - Nuno Roque

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. - River Phoenix

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business. - Salman Rushdie

Halloween pumpkins aglow.
Come see the show. - Unknown

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. - Honore de Balzac

The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. - Susan Saint James

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. - Dan Quayle

I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. - Omari Hardwick

I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me. - Amit Abraham

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. - James Herbert

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted. - Hope Mirrlees

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. - Steve Almond

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. - Erma Bombeck

Misers part with nothing until they die. Then they give up the ghost. - Latin Proverb

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself. - Amit Kalantri

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween. - Unknown

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am. - Harrison E. Salisbury

And where does the power come from to see the race to its end? It comes from within. - Eric Liddell

Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. - Unknown

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts. - Sally Field

Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm. - Rebecca Maizel

Well over eighty per cent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. - H L Mencken

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. - Amanda Eliasch

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?' - Drew Carey

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. - Douglas Coupland

We're all trying to keep up in this stupid race. But that won't be much fun when we're floating in space. - John Symeou

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight. - Kalpana Chawla

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom. - Julie Kagawa

The world, the race, the soul - in space and time the universes,
All bound as is befitting each - all surely going somewhere. - Walt Whitman

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place. - Emily Dickinson

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. - Bertrand Russell

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning; at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. - Haile Gebrelassie

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar. - John Burnside