Trunks Quotes

• 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 fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Dog, Sex, Dedication

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• The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Next, Ill

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.298

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• Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

  Herman Melville

  Branches, Twigs, Chapters

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.275

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• I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

  Hugo Weaving

  Breathing, Erotic, Necks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 a small heap of earth.

  Laozi

  Men, Hair, Tree

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• Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

  Nick Vujicic

  Roots, Giving, Tree

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• I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

  Dolley Madison

  Paper, Cabinets, Wagons

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Numbers, Tree

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• Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

  Pope Paul VI

  Beauty, Strong, Roots

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Roots, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Feet, Blonde

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• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Tree, Splinters

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

  David Benioff

  Sleep, Insomnia, Skulls

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Mean, Vices

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.49, Letcetera Publishing

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• At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

  Albert Camus

  Sky, Tree, Looks

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• We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Society, Substance, Body

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Cutting, Vices

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

  Ansel Adams

  Light, Wind, Yellow

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• You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Family, Eye, Zest

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• The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

  Christopher Pike

  Years, Making Love, Soul

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Elephants

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

  Riff Raff

  Sky, Floating, Knocking

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• Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful.

  Hans Heysen

  Beautiful, Nature, Tree

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• The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Night, Air

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.43, Glendower Media

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