Grand Trunk Pacific

Famous quotes containing the words grand, trunk and/or pacific:

    “The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “through the Sumner Tunnel,
    trunk by trunk through its sulphurous walls,
    tile by tile like a men’s urinal,
    slipping through
    like somebody else’s package.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
    That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
    Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)