Quotes About Pests

#1. Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

#2. New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Nina Fedoroff

#3. Oh, he is marvelous," she said. "He knows his household pests, all right, it's a wonderful book. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#4. The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

Isabel Paterson

#5. When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate ... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

Henry Miller

#6. Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

Jane Porter

#7. We wouldn't believe that the Germans, known as the enlightened world as 'bearers of culture,' were capable of planning and carrying out, in cold blood, without pity, the mass destruction of human beings by industrial means, as if they were bedbugs, flies, or other pests to be exterminated.

Joseph Bau

#8. Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

Aldo Leopold

#9. I wasn't afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my purse for dealing with the less dangerous pests, but even I knew you have to be careful with an upset woman.

J.C. Nelson

#10. We're going to scrape her hull clear of those pests,

Evan Currie

#11. How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.

Lorenz Hart

#12. Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

Joseph Rago

#13. I've heard a sip of gin will make you immune to mosquitoes and other pests.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#14. And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests
disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

David Sedaris

#15. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they're alone with you.

Anne Frank

#17. As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

Mike Rogers

#18. I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.

Vickie Winans

#19. House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

Margo Kaufman

#20. Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have ... remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ... from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.

Frances Moore Lappe

#21. Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

Dave Barry

#22. How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic.

Jesikah Sundin

#23. Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Woody Harrelson

#24. Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies ... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

Pope Pius IX

#25. One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

Nina Fedoroff

#26. The pest of society is egotists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#28. The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

Claudius Claudianus

#30. I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

Kieran Bew

#31. The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how
usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

Charles Bukowski

#32. A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

Oliver Herford

#33. Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#34. Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Johann Most

#35. I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Franklin P. Adams