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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. -- Aeschylus
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. -- Zakes Mda
We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk. -- Al Bernstein
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. -- Augustus William Hare
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
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
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. -- Jostein Gaarder
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
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space. -- Henry Moore
One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. -- Elon Musk
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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
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 show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived. -- Pat Benatar
[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks. -- Suzy Menkes
I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks. -- Feist
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent. -- Agyness Deyn
I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood. -- Muhammad Ali
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. -- Renzo Novatore
To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks. -- Ruskin Bond
I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece. -- Alain Ducasse
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace. -- Stevie Nicks
The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier. -- Anne Lamott
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
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
I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over. -- Joyce DiDonato

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