The 18th IAAF World Cross Country Championships were held on March 24, 1990 in Aix-les-Bains, France.
Famous quotes containing the words world, cross and/or country:
“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First—”
—Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)
“Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,—
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)