Japan Figure Skating

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

“I do not know that the United States can save civilization but at least by our example we can make people think and give them the opportunity of saving themselves. The trouble is that the people of Germany, Italy and Japan are not given the privilege of thinking.”
—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)