I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression. . . We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
