Tusk Quotes

#1. I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Peter Beard

#2. Do you know what it means to be that beautiful & still hunted & still alive?
Who knows this story but the elephants & the trees?

Who says the grace of a black man in motion is not perfect
as a tusk in the sun or a single leaf taking its sweet time to the ground?

Danez Smith

#3. He charged in, raising his ax above his head, and the boar rammed his tusk straight into Ankaios's crotch. Ankaios died, and he was remembered forever after as the Crotchless Wonder.

Rick Riordan

#4. My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

Bethany Cosentino

#5. Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.

Ghostface Killah

#6. 'Tusk Tusk' is about a family of kids who are alone, the audience don't know why.

Georgia Groome

#7. The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

Victoria Beckham

#8. until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast.

Neil Gaiman

#9. She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

Jose Rizal

#10. One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

John Jay Chapman

#11. I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

Bel Powley

#12. If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deeper than any tusk or riving talon ever had, but he was a true hero.

Peter S. Beagle

#13. Read it, ya slack eared, short tusk mongrel." - Grormoth Wraithmane

D.W. Johnson

#14. My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

Donald Tusk

#15. Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

Donald Tusk

#16. There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.

Donald Tusk

#17. I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.

Donald Tusk

#18. Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Donald Tusk

#19. I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

Donald Tusk

#20. We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

Donald Tusk

#21. I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

Donald Tusk

#22. My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

Donald Tusk

#23. In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.

Donald Tusk

#24. For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

Donald Tusk

#25. If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Donald Tusk

#26. Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Donald Tusk

#27. Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Donald Tusk

#28. Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

Donald Tusk

#29. If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?

Donald Tusk

#30. I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

Donald Tusk

#31. The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Donald Tusk

#32. A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Donald Tusk

#33. Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Donald Tusk

#34. What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

Donald Tusk

#35. My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

Donald Tusk

#36. We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

Donald Tusk

#37. I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Donald Tusk

#38. We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

Donald Tusk

#39. Politics itself is not sacred any more.

Donald Tusk