Quotes About Ants

#1. Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Charles Kingsley

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

Stevie Smith

#4. Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Wayne Pacelle

#6. 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.

Lewis Thomas

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

Steven Wright

#8. We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all.

Aimee Bender

#9. Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

John Galsworthy

#10. We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

#11. Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?

Thanhha Lai

#12. The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

Laura Mullen

#13. Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. How can you have boundaries if you fly? Those ants of yours - and the humans too - would have to stop fighting in the end, if they took to the air." "I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly." "Because you're a baby.

T.H. White

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

Bill Vaughan

#16. I am slowely realizing that Ginny's parents are from tjhe planet Wow, Really? The ants weigh in: I tjhink you meant the planet Fucking Asshole.

A.S. King

#17. Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

Wendelin Van Draanen

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

Kanye West

#19. We are human beings, not ants.

Jami Attenberg

#20. Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.

Joe Brainard

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

Terence McKenna

#22. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Frederick Buechner

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#24. Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

Charlie Flynn

#26. Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#27. The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Ezra Pound

#28. These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees.

Catherine Of Siena

#29. Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Toni Morrison

#30. Ants that encounter in their path a dead philosopher may make good use of him.

Stanislaw Lem

#31. Ants are a terrific analogy for the route to success. They will go over, under, around, or through whatever gets in their way. They never stop moving, and neither should you. Take the word impossible and turn it into I'm Possible.

Honoree Corder

#32. I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before ... but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!

Marv Wolfman

#33. The gentle rustle of armies crawling the planet like ants. Anybody with any sense knows what's coming.

Vanessa Veselka

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#35. Do you think that everything in the world is inside something else? My little Park inside the big one and the big one inside a larger one? Again and again? Away and away?" She waved her arm to take in the sky. "And to someone very far out there - do you think we would look like ants?" "Ants

P.L. Travers

#36. I love the old stuff that's why I included it. I did see them play a lot as they supported the Banshees all the time. And I was a friend of the Banshees so I used to get there early to see the Ants and while the Banshees were on I used to like to go in their dressing room and steal their booze!

Marco Pirroni

#37. Glass is sand and sand is glass!
The ant dancing blind as blind ants do
on the lip of the rim and the rim of the lip.
White in the night and grey in the day-
smiling spider she never smiles but smile she does
though the ant never sees, blind as it is-
and now was!

Steven Erikson

#38. When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

Saskya Pandita

#39. Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed.

Arundhati Roy

#40. An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

Tom Hiddleston

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

Alanis Morissette

#42. 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

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

Charlie Munger

#44. We're eatable ants.

H.G.Wells

#45. Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Kiran Desai

#46. 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

#47. I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it's because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.

Amber Garibay

#48. There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#49. That's what we are now - just ants. Only - "
"Yes," I said.
"We're eatable ants.

H.G.Wells

#50. Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Clarence Day

#51. Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

#52. The time has come for us to admit our insignificance by making discoveries in the infinite unexplored cosmos. Only then shall we realize that we are nothing but ants in the vast state of the universe. And yet our future and our opportunities lie in the universe, where gods promised they would.

Erich Von Daniken

#53. After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear away the wreckage. They swarm around like ants whose anthill has been scuffed; how doggedly they rebuild their lives.

Deborah Moggach

#54. Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

James Lee

#55. The ants say: aren't we all bleeding a little?

A.S. King

#56. DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

Charles Bukowski

#57. If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them.

George R R Martin

#58. The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

Bert Holldobler

#59. Anyone who abandon's their children should be hung, by their toenails while awaiting flesh eating ants or some other painful flesh eating hungry creature to consume them. Slowly and painfully ...

A.R. Von

#60. Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

E. O. Wilson

#61. A natural balcony fifteen hundred feet above a sea still visible bathed in sunlight, on the other hand, was the place where I could breathe most freely, especially if I were alone, well above the human ants.

Albert Camus

#62. Even if you are a little drop of water, you can still be very useful, you can at least quench the thirst of few ants! The holy road to be helpful is always open for those who want to be helpful!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

Jonathan Haidt

#64. It's just men and ants. There's the ants builds their cities,live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until men want them out of the way, and then they go out of the way. That's what we are now _ just ants.

H.G.Wells

#65. God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

Maria McCann

#66. Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.

Bert Holldobler

#67. The people are so small, they look like ants (although they're Walmart customers, so they look like obese ants).

Andrew Shaffer

#68. He reminded me of Gerald Roma from grade school, who used to burn ants with a magnifying glass. He was never quite right. It was weird that he spontaneously combusted during finals week our freshman year in college. Payback was a bitch.

Darynda Jones

#69. 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.

Mark Twain

#70. Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something's definitely getting squashed.

Frances Winkler

#71. Ants shape each other's behavior by exchanging chemicals. We do it by standing in front of each other, peering into each other's eyes, waving our hands and emitting strange sounds from our mouths. Human-to-human

Chris J. Anderson

#72. When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#73. People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

P. J. O'Rourke

#74. How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

Virginia Woolf

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

A.S. Byatt

#76. I used to think how dangerous the world would have been if these ants were the size of dogs. They would have cut the humans in two halves just by a single strike of their flippers.

Abhishek Leela Pandey

#77. Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not.
There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

Neil Gaiman

#78. If you meet a cross-eyed person
you must plunge into the grass,
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover ...

Anne Sexton

#79. Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.

Chila Woychik

#80. It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.

Charlie Munger

#81. Earth is home to more than twelve thousand species of ants. If you weighed all the ants and all the humans, the ants would weigh more.

Chuck Wendig

#82. Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

Emlyn Chand

#83. Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

Sara Genn

#84. We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#85. Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Marcus Aurelius

#86. 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.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#87. I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!"

Henny Youngman

#88. Dreams are often dangerous.
Those endowed with an imagination don't run a way from this world, They think about the fate of all its creatures. They worry even about the flowers and the ants.
But someone with a dream wants to make everyone service his dream.
Ghazalnus

Bakhtiyar Ali

#89. Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#90. Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea

Sarada Devi

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

E. O. Wilson

#92. A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

LaDene Mayville

#93. I imagine that she's looking at the stars and thinking about how small and insignificant we are down here. We're little ants on a pebble, hurtling through space.

Albert Borris

#94. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

David Lynch

#95. 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

#96. The Bull Ants love to eat other small insects, as well as seeds, sweet nectar and fruit.

Leanne Annett

#97. Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

Steve Wozniak

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

Milton Berle

#99. Ants are driven by fear.

Lauren Oliver

#100. 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