Continents Figure Skating

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

    “Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)