Quotes About Running

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

My mother's desire to reach those waves, touch her feet to another ocean on the other side of the country, was all she was thinking of--the pure baptismal goal of it. Whoosh and you can start all over again. Or was life more like the horrible game in gym that has you running from one side of an enclosed space to another, picking up and setting down wooden blocks without end?

While none of us can know for sure that running will add years to our life, there's no doubt it will add life to our years.

I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of years of evolution have left me programmed to run. And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.

And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.

That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are.

It was as if the room beyond the blast furnace was a tub and someone had turned the faucets on the cold and hot running snakes.

There are two infections running rampant. One is the Dragonscale, and the other is panic.

an instinct for running his mouth when anyone else would know to shut up.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

Y así continúo corriendo tras esta vaga sombra, hasta que me conduce al borde del abismo, donde me detengo con espanto.

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

And honored among foxes and pheasants by the gay houseUnder the new-made clouds and happy as the heart was long,In the sun born over and over,I ran my heedless ways.

I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally." "Okay." "It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be awkward." "I said okay." "Okay, then." And he runs.

Fat Angie led the pack of runners as the town went from yawn to full awake. Dryfalls was abuzz with the sight. Snow sticking to the sidewalks, windshields, rooftops. Still they all ran. Together.

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

And he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.