Quotes About Trunk

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys.

The Hebrew word is actually Lilith, which the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible explains is a Mesopotamian demoness residing in a tree that reaches back to the third millennium BC. Here we find Inanna (Ishtar) who plants a tree later hoping to cut from its wood a throne and a bed for herself. But as the tree grows, a snake makes its nest at its roots, Anzu settled in the top and in the trunk the demon ki-sikil-líl-lá [Lilith] makes her lair.[15]

there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.

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.

We're looking for the early adopter who considers style to be an important part of the purchase decision. But they'll be getting a practical car with plenty of trunk space they can use for picking up building supplies at Home Depot.

Let her out! I screamed at the tree. I beat on its trunk with my muddy fists. Let her out, or I'll bring you down! Fulmia ! I cried out in rage . . .

And we had seen a man at the amphitheater dressed as a pirate—the same day the prop room keys disappeared, Brian said. Yeah, moaned Michele. The same day we were looking in the trunk where the head was! Mother gave John a stern look. And you saw another pirate in the graveyard that night, said Jo Dee. Now Mother really glared at John who looked like he wondered if these were the same kids who had stayed with him all summer. They all grinned at John and giggled.

But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an event as that now related, and which, as in the present case, sometimes prolong themselves for ages afterwards, like the toadstools that indicate where the fallen and buried trunk of a tree has long since mouldered into the earth.

Look, Laszlo. I'll have the dentist with me, and I don't want to alarm her any more than necessary. So take Vanna out of the backseat and stick her in the trunk." Shanna halted. Her mouth dropped open. Her throat seized up, making it hard to breathe. I don't care how much crap you have in the trunk. We're not driving around with a naked body in the car." Oh no! She gasped for air. He was a hit man.

suddenly he lowered his trunk

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. Godm he was hungry.

The root of magic is love, the trunk is service.

All the trunk lines have been engaged. The Americans have been trying to reach Ely to cancel their concert, but the lines are jammed.

None of these men stayed around very long, though neither Greening nor anyone else ever witnessed their departure. Strangely, every one of them left his trunk behind.

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

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

They were in my briefcase, in the trunk, but I was hesitant to get out of the car. I was much taller than the policeman, and he might make my height a cause for provocation

He popped the trunk and pulled out from his duffel a set of NV goggles. "Good thing I didn't have my duffel in the car when we went into the water." "Yeah, good thing it was just us in the car," shot back Knox.

When people call this beast to mind,They marvel more and moreAt such a little tail behind,So large a trunk before.

After denuding the trunk, the men left to denude others, and for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stunted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us realize it had been speaking all along.