Sonja Henie Professions : Figure Skater Born : April 8, 1912 Died : October 12, 1969 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Sonja Henie Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles. Sonja Henie wrinkles jewels people If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you. Sonja Henie distance running moving The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself. Sonja Henie higher world All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated. Sonja Henie skates wanted it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down. Sonja Henie ice running sports I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing. Sonja Henie skates dancing want I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me. Sonja Henie me family home weather You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training. Sonja Henie you champion training time Similar Authors Brian Boitano figure-skater Ashley Wagner figure-skater Analeigh Tipton figure-skater Irina Slutskaya figure-skater Dorothy Hamill figure-skater Evgeni Plushenko figure-skater All Authors
