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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Tree, Sap, Vigor

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• I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.

  Christopher Walken

  Actors, Stuff, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

  Anais Nin

  Mind

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• [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

  Country, Writing, Fire

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• A great acacia, with its slender trunk
  And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
  (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
  And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
  Stood reconciling all the place with green.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dew, Green, Might

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

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• The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.

  Lucy Larcom

  Children, Father, Heart

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• Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real Man finds the notion of a $17,000 plastic car with no trunk somewhat absurd.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Real, Men, Car

  Bruce Feirstein, Lionel Trippett (1982). “Real Men Don't Eat Quiche”, New English Library

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• 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 serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  Jules Verne

  Elephants, Tree, Sound

  Jules Verne (2015). “Journey to Center of the Earth”, p.209, Xist Publishing

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• However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

  Ousmane Sembene

  Rivers, Long, Tree

  Ousmane Sembène (1983). “Xala”, Lawrence Hill Books

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• A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

  Renzo Novatore

  Old Things, Smoking, Leaving

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• 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

  Hands, Tree, Return

  Ruskin Bond (2003). “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, p.134, Penguin Books India

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• My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

  Neil Jordan

  Different, Stories, Movement

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• You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.'

  Paris Reidhead

  Jesus, Keys, Hands

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• Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Struggle, Nurse

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Tender is the Night”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fashion, Names, Labels

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.40, D. H. Lawrence

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• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Roots, Tree, Answers

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.189, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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 of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

  Hermann Hesse

  Struggle, Cutting, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• 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 earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

  Richard Allen

  Blue, Sky, White

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

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• 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 you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

  Aesop

  Hands, Tree, Needs

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop

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• 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 us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Flower, Love Is

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.41, Ignatius Press

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• Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Growing Up, Law

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.117

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• My foray into the wrestling world is well documented in that I have stated many a time that I am not the kid that grows up and aspires to put wrestling trunks and wrestling boots on and get in the ring and flies around to entertain people.

  Bill Goldberg

  Growing Up, Kids, Wrestling

  "Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris, 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh that sounds just perfect. Let me do just that, or I'll lose track." Sure, glad I could help." Oh, you surely did." We beamed at each other, just two nice women. I had to fight an impulse to say "I have a tortured vampire in my trunk," out of sheer giddiness.

  Charlaine Harris

  Running, Nice, Fighting

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Club Dead”, Ace Trade

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