Famous quotes containing the words run and/or marathon:
“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“The mountains look on Marathon
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)