Grand Trunk

Grand Trunk can refer to:

  • The Grand Trunk Company in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
  • The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Canada
  • The Grand Trunk Railway in North America
  • The Grand Trunk Road in South Asia

Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or trunk:

    Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
    which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.
    Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

    Let me have
    A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
    As will disperse itself through all the veins
    That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
    As violently as hasty powder fired
    Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)