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Quotes About Running

An audible 'click' sounded as the milkman and I ran by a bush and this was a bush I'd run by lots of times without clicks coming out of it.
~ Anna Burns
For they do not look through to the soul, nor have a keen eye for virtue, but they stop at the outward excellencies of the body, and admire daring, and strength, speed in running, and size, and consider these as fit qualifications for the purple robe and diadem.
~ Anna Comnena
If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it".
~ Anne Carson
Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!
~ Anne Carson
The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
~ Anne Carson
Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
but running back, that God showed up and taught her a profound life lesson: Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
God cares about each of us and all of us — period! And because He really does love you — He really does care about you — you and I can run, but we can't outrun Him.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
At the highest speed I can sustain on the hills, about 14 minutes for a mile, I do not even try to think of anything else.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
In order for me to perform the best I can out on the field, I have to fuel my body with the proper nutrients to be able to do all the running. I'm running four or five miles every game, so it's a lot. Even at halftime, I take electrolytes and have half a peanut-butter-and-jelly or whatever is sitting there just to keep my engine running.
~ Ali Krieger
Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
~ Amanda Burton
I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.
~ Kevin Clifton
I never understood how much running changes your life. I'm now obsessed. When not trying to beat my personal best, I'm talking to other people about theirs, reading training advice or eating the perfect balance of carbs and protein.
~ Sadiq Khan
Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.
~ Robert Scoble
there'll be a great running up and down upon the earth for a
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?
~ Fannie Flagg
The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorr.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Wait here, wait here! he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the distance ahead of him. Help, help! he shouted, but his voice was thin, scarcely a thread of sound. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorrow.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I never wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my family life. I wanted to run. That's what always what I do, I run. I run as far away as I can.
~ Hope Solo
When 'Run Lola Run' came out, the thing about it was it was a very fast-paced film.
~ Franka Potente
The more you run, the faster you get, and that's more efficient because you're running more in less time.
~ Kate Gosselin
I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.
~ Betty Wright