Trunks Quotes

163 quotes by 153 authors

When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk… — Hermann Hesse
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red… — Richard Allen
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its… — Hans Heysen
Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate… — Hans Heysen
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are… — Aesop
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in… — Peter Kreeft
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of… — Jules Verne
I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to… — Pat Benatar
The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with… — Sathya Sai Baba
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes… — Ambrose Bierce
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,â€”a good finger,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent. — Agyness Deyn
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

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