States Figure Skating

Famous quotes containing the words states, figure and/or skating:

    “[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)