Ant Like Quotes

#1. By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. Approach your goals with ant-like persistence.

Linda A. Tancs

#4. When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

Adam Ant

#5. I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

Adam Ant

#6. 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.

Stephen King

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

Ramakrishna

#8. You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

Lily Allen

#9. The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Adam Ant

#10. Friend, we're traveling together.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you
one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out
a grain that's way too big.

Rumi

#11. Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

V.S. Naipaul

#12. She tops up the silver pot with the hot water, steeping every sixpence's worth of tannin out of those tea leaves floating in the water like bloated ants. Do ants bloat? She has to say she has never seen a bloated ant. The injustice of it.

Mark O'Flynn

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

Amanda Bynes

#14. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

#15. Watching Castro, whose tiny hands looked like marshmallows, hoist the ball from his waist and through the hoop seemed like the human equivalent of an ant lifting fifty times its body weight.

Rafe Bartholomew

#16. Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just ... there and you deal with it. It's like ... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

Adam Ant

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

Kiowa Gordon

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

Richard Paul Evans

#19. It appears that nutrient exchange and helping neighbors in times of need is the rule, and this leads to the conclusion that forests are superorganisms with interconnections much like ant colonies.

Peter Wohlleben

#20. They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones.

George Orwell

#21. I always like to tell a story.

Adam Ant

#22. Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his last instruction.

Philip K. Dick

#23. Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Adam Ant

#24. Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

Ramakrishna

#25. Well, reading Twitter's a lot like staring at an ant farm," Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. "Except without all the productivity.

Wayne Gladstone

#26. Imagine what humans could do, if we all worked together like an ant colony...minus the queen.

Justin D. Hill

#27. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

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

Bill Vaughan

#29. The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Rick Warren

#30. A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

Orhan Pamuk

#31. I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.

Walter Mosley

#32. I like to be alone. Also, I drift, perhaps. When in a crowd, nothing seems to be worth while, and one is an ant in a hurrying mass. Alone, thoughts come with force. They strike one as bluntly as seen things impress themselves.

Charles J. Finger

#33. I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

Adam Ant

#34. You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Robert Fulghum

#35. He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips that held the paddle.

Verity Ant

#36. 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.

John Steinbeck

#37. It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

B. Barmanbek

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

Friedrich Schiller

#39. She wrangled her tits into the bustier cups. It was like trying to pipe Jello into an ant's anus, but eventually she was cinched tight. Dove tried the rollers again. No luck. They weren't coming out, and it made her a little sick to her stomach thinking about what it would take to remove them.

Debra Anastasia

#40. I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Hannah Hoch

#41. I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

Rick Warren

#42. Like the previous one, this angel smiles when he sees my blade. He's up for more of a challenge than squashing an ant. At least this ant has a sharp knife and an attitude.

Susan Ee

#43. As far as Cheap Trick albums, I like the Red Ant record, which is just called 'Cheap Trick,' from 1997; that's my second-favorite album.

Robin Zander

#44. Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

Chris Murray

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

Janice Dickinson

#46. Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand.

Santosh Kalwar

#47. The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

Al-Ghazali

#48. The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast - above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill - has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.

David Quammen