Famous quotes containing the words run and/or marathon:
“Still as they run they look behind,
They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“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 (1788–1824)