Athletic Union State

Famous quotes containing the words athletic, union and/or state:

“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”
—Douglas Jerrold (1803–1857)

“And thus they sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)