Running Quotes

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
Stevie Nicks

Single, Down, Looking

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Toni Morrison

Family, Problem, Broken

Avoid running at all times.
Satchel Paige

I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.
Marco Rubio

Two, Tell, Against

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.
Marco Rubio

Life, Home, Political

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
Marco Rubio

Peace, Today, Simple

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
William Lyon Phelps

Rain, Between, Anyone

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
Larry Bird

Love, Feeling, Made

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood

Thought, Away, Grownups

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
Conan O'Brien

Marriage, End, Gay

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
Billy Corgan

Band, Ultimately

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
Frank Shorter

Experience, Important, Keep

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
Sting

Best, Down, Around

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
William J. Clinton

President, Nobody, Listening

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Best, Reason, President

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Mao Zedong

Good, Help, Training

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
Pat Robertson

America, Empire, Brits

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.
Simon Mainwaring

Food, Reality, Around

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
Liam Neeson

Work, Away, Survived

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.
Liam Neeson

Fighting, Old, Maturity

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht

Peace, Good, War

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
Larry David

Person, Run, Break

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
Marc Andreessen

Revolution, Before, Beginning

I didn't say I was running, did I?
Rick Perry

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
Rick Perry

Place, Water, Office

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
Haile Gebrselassie

Forward, Mind, Country

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.
Herman Cain

Simple, Same, Point

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
Emil Zatopek

Why, Learn, Run

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Eudora Welty

Good, Moment, Away

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
Dick Gregory

Person, Through, Tell

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