Quotes About Running

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

Either we are running 'from' what we fear, or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel?No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

For me, 'Dog Days' symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

I love running cross country....On a track, I feel like a hamster.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

I once dated a girl on the track team. It didn't work out. She kept giving me the runaround.

Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.

You must always have a safe place to go. That is the first thing you learn. Though you should know that by instinct, before anyone has to teach you. It isn't just spies that need to run. Good times don't last forever.

Stick close to the shelter for the next couple days, okay? If you decide to go running around, find me first. Find Grant. But don't go out by yourself. Got it?" Byron frowned. "No. Why?" Because someone shot me in the head this morning, and he might know you're a weakness of mine . But all I said was, "Perverts." "Perverts," he said, giving me a piercing look. "Right.

I whispered, "And here I was thinking of running off with him." A grim smile touched Grant's mouth. "You could try. But then I'd have to drag you back.

This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.

It is a common misconception — pervasive and tenacious, but a misconception nonetheless — that arses are made for sitting on. It seems, instead, they are made for running.

It is therefore not implausible that there is a connection between the rhythm of the body involved in running and the presence of the brain activity involved in higher cognitive functions.

Running, in other words, removed an important constraint on our development as a species.