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)

    “Evening attend two “fandangos.” Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments for your doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

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