Ants Quotes

I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

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.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

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.

The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

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.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

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.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.

Forbear,
thou great good husband,
little ant.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.

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.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

Wonderful theory, wrong species.

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

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.