Track and Field/events/running

Famous quotes containing the words track, field, events and/or running:

    “The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The field of doom bears death as its harvest.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It was far in the sameness of the wood;
    I was running with joy on the Demon’s trail,
    Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)