Home Arena

Famous quotes containing the words home and/or arena:

    You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    [I]t forged ahead to become a full-fledged metropolis, with 143 faro games, 30 saloons, 4 banks, 27 produce stores, 3 express offices—and an arena for bull-and-bear fights, which, described by Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune, is said to have given Wall Street its best-known phrases.
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)