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Trunks Quotes

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Zakes Mda
Elephants, Doe, Trunks
Zakes Mda (2007). “Ways of Dying: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Aeschylus
Inspirational, May, Trunks
Aeschylus (1901). “Aeschylos: Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon, The libation-pourers, Eumenides”

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

Riff Raff
Sky, Floating, Trunks

Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

Charlie Krueger
Friendship, Emergencies, Trunks

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Orlando Bloom
Tree, Trunks, Grounded

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

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

Al Bernstein
World, Trunks, Treats

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Jonathan Swift
Green, Trunks, Intemperance
Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

Feist
Digging, Nostalgic, Trunks
Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

Wyclef Jean
Scare, Way, Trunks
Song: Anything Can Happen, Album: The Carnival, 1997

There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Baby, Body, Trunks
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.670, Macmillan

And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

Janet Evanovich
Jesus, Saws, Trunks

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

Eva Ibbotson
Book, Missing, Trunks
Eva Ibbotson (2008). “Journey to the River Sea”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Carol Shields
Pairs, Trunks, Buried

I have a trunk containing continents.

Beryl Markham
Trunks, Continents, Containing
Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.273, Open Road Media

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

Anais Nin
Mind, Trunks

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