ran quotes

So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 20:4.

The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legged scissor-man.

- Heinrich Hoffmann
  Struwwelpeter,'The Little Suck-a- Thumb'.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way, It ran a hundred years to a day.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.11.

They didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.

- Maxwell Davenport Taylor
On the KennedyWhite House and the botched invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Quoted in Ralph G Martin A Hero for OurTime (1983).

Themachineisrunning away withhimasit ranaway with me.

- Kaiser Wilhelm II
  Of Adolf Hitler at the start ofWorldWar II, said to Sir Robert Bruce-Lockhart, 27 Aug.