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Sonja Henie Quotes

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Sonja Henie
Wrinkles, Jewels, People
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.

Sonja Henie
World, Higher
Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

Sonja Henie
Wanted, Skates
Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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
Running, Distance, Moving
Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

Sonja Henie
Dancing, Want, Skates
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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
Sports, Running, Ice
Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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