Defunct National Football

Famous quotes containing the words defunct, national and/or football:

    “The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “In this dream that dogs me I am part
    Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
    Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
    All moving the same way.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)