Ants famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
-- Adam Ant -
To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.
-- Amanda Bynes -
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
-- Bela Lugosi -
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
-- Ben Hecht -
If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
-- Bert Holldobler -
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
-- Bert Holldobler -
Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.
-- Bill Gaede -
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.
-- Bindi Irwin -
If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
-- David Icke -
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
-- David Lynch -
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
-- E. O. Wilson -
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.
-- Elihu Burritt -
when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
-- Ellen Wittlinger -
I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
-- Gerald Brenan -
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
-- Guru Nanak -
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
-- Isak Dinesen -
The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants,
-- Isoroku Yamamoto -
Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
-- Janice Dickinson -
Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.
-- Joe Brainard -
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.
-- John Carroll -
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
-- John Clellon Holmes -
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
-- Karel Capek -
I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.
-- Kiowa Gordon -
Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need
-- Margaret Stohl -
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
-- Marie Dressler -
Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -
I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.
-- Milton Berle -
One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
-- Nancy Mitford -
Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
-- Nizar Qabbani -
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
-- Norbert Wiener -
She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type.
-- Rachel Vincent -
Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.
-- Richard Lovelace -
You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.
-- Robert Fulghum -
I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.
-- Sam Snead -
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
-- Sara Genn -
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole
-- Stevie Smith -
Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.
-- Theocritus -
Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
-- Thomas Harris -
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
-- U.G. Krishnamurti -
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.
-- Wayne Pacelle -
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
-- Weston La Barre -
[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
-- Will Cuppy -
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.
-- Max O'Rell
