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Quotes About Running

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.
~ Roger Bannister
C'erano intorno ragazzini che correvano, cani che volevano tornare a casa e coppie di anziani con l'aria di essere scampati a qualcosa di terrificante. La loro vita, probabilmente.
~ Alessandro Baricco
It was as if I'd been running from my past, my story, my pain, and I'd run smack into myself again," she says.
~ Donna Jackson Nakazawa
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.
~ Doris Lessing
When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Tupper, I think in The Victor. Alf was a working class, whippet-thin runner known as the Tough of the Track who won all his races despite having been up all night making briquettes to save a friend's business, missing his bus to the stadium, being knocked over mid-race by a poncy upper-class twit and losing one of his raggedy running shoes.
~ Douglas Skelton
Some say that Im their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. Im about my team, hoe, Young Money running back.
~ Drake
I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.
~ Joseph Heller
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
~ George A. Sheehan
In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.
~ Kristin Armstrong
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
~ George A. Sheehan
the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky.
~ Jilly Cooper
Smudge continued running laps, flames flickering like tiny orange banners on his back. He was never wrong about danger, but he couldn't tell you if that danger was a meteorite streaking toward the roof or an amorous moose running amok in the parking lot.
~ Jim C. Hines
Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.
~ Jim Murray
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
~ Jimmy Carter
I have a lifelong habit for dealing with dejection: I leave town. I first ran away from home at three. Mother helped pack my bag.
~ Jinx Schwartz
In the distance, I see Web and Jess leaning against Web's car. When they see me coming, they wave, as if I wouldn't be able to find them in the nearly empty lot. I wave back, smiling for the first time I can remember. And then, instead of walking back to them, I start to run.
~ Jo Knowles
I want to run so much sometimes my body aches with longing more than the pain from my leg.
~ Jo Walton
some running in terror from the whip of subtle simalarity between the madwomens utterd thoughts and their own unuttered ones
~ Joanne Greenberg
The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn't.
~ Ann Marlowe
The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.
~ Ann Marlowe
As we jumped the tiny hedge because we couldn't be bothered with the tiny gate to set off on our running, I inhaled the early evening light and realized this was softening, what others might term a little softening. Then, landing on the pavement in the direction of the parks & reservoirs, I exhaled this light and for a moment, just a moment, I almost nearly laughed.
~ Anna Burns