Trunk Quotes

180 quotes by 162 authors

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. — Aeschylus
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. — Orlando Bloom
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and… — John Playfair
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable… — Ronald Knox
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from… — Laozi
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… — Francis Bacon
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them. — Vanessa Hudgens
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. — Charlie Krueger
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind,… — Edwin Markham
After you reach a certain age, they think youâ€™re over. Well, I will never be over. Iâ€™ll be making records if I have to sell… — Dolly Parton
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. — John von Neumann
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. — George Balanchine
I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. — Hilaire Belloc
Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get… — Jodi Picoult
Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids… — Aldo Leopold

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