Ants Quotations

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.

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

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

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.

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.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

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

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

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

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.

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

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

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

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

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

The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?

like ants in the kitchen - without closing all the holes, there is always a way in.

People will jump on it like ants on a muffin,

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

Keep the doors closed and replace weather stripping where necessary. Cutting back branches from your home also may help deter carpenter ants from gaining entry.

Last night I had fire ants crawling all over me. Physically it's very uncomfortable, but I think of all the soldiers in Iraq who, when it's too hot or too stormy, can't go into town for refuge. As bad as we have it here, it's nothing compared to how bad they have it over there.

The ants are doing great. They're moving around like crazy, tunneling, and we're seeing a clear difference between the tunnels in space and on Earth.

I was quite good, but not excellent. I pushed myself to work hard, but I had ants in my pants. I used to get bored.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

The extent to which urban runoff can be reduced or contained, problems associated with Argentine ants should diminish. Whenever I'm out in the field and someone asks what I'm doing and I tell them I study Argentine ants, the first thing they want to know is, How do I get rid of the ants from my home?

We are human beings, not ants.

We live in a state that has fire ants that actually kill people. We have scorpions and spiders and boa constrictors and all those scary things.

When they die here naturally, wings get beat up, ants eat off the head or antenna. There's so much damage it'd be a ruined species. It would hurt me more to see that specium ruined and we didn't let more people see it.

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

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.

Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Do ants get headaches?

When I was a kidI liked burning ants with a magnifying glass.but I think that progressed into adulthood where I now believe in aliens.

I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.

We think the ants are actually disinfecting their dead.

We had so many people, it looked like red ants on a hill. We fully loaded 24-foot Budget and 26-foot U-Haul trucks.

There's literature to support the fact that these ants have eliminated the bird nesting on other islands. They've interrupted bird nesting and eliminated native species in other areas.

I used to feed spiders in the hedgerow where my grandmother used to live. I used to spend hours just lying on the front lawn watching ants go by.

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.

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

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

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

Ants built a mound in the passenger side of my car. They built it over night, and I didn't even notice it until I was driving down the road and they began to swarm. I freaked out,

Anywhere on the island you can stop and see these ants swarming around, and if you sit down and try to eat your lunch, they'll be all over you pretty quick.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

There was a lot of scratching and clawing going on. It was like two armies of ants crawling over each other at a picnic.

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Those prizes in Cracker Jacks are a joke. I once got a magnifying glass. It was so poorly made, ants were laughing at it.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

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.

I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

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.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

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

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.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

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

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.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

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

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

When giants fought, ants were crushed.

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

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

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.

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.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

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