Trunk Quotes

180 quotes by 162 authors

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. — Dante Alighieri
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I… — Nicole Beharie
I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk. — Wyclef Jean
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas. — Waylon Jennings
I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it. — Bushwick Bill
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding… — Madeleine L'Engle
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. — Pietro Metastasio
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth… — Henry Moore
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. — Blaise Pascal
A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access… — James Fitzjames Stephen
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms… — Criss Jami
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. — Charles Caleb Colton
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES… — Charles Caleb Colton
There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk. — Amy Lee
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night… — Georgia O'Keeffe

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