Quotes About Termites

#1. The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization ... it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.

Billy Graham

#2. But fear isn't a quiet pet that stays in a cage in the back room. Rather, as termites undermine the internal workings of a structure until it collapses from within, fear spreads to every part of your life unless you deal with it.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#3. I have personal problems like other people have termites.

Alice Hastings Bradley

#4. I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

Florynce Kennedy

#5. I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

Jane Goodall

#6. Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Henry Winkler

#7. Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.

Holly Black

#8. The termites have got me.

Babe Ruth

#9. The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Vance Havner

#10. Calamity-ville horror plagued by mold and termites and a faulty foundation.

Tracy Brogan

#11. once gotos are introduced, they spread through the code like termites through a rotting house.

Steve McConnell

#12. I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. First world babies are eating this planet like termites.

Caitlin Moran

#14. I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.

Marisha Pessl

#15. Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

Farshad Asl

#16. Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

Dale Carnegie

#17. Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.

Massimo Marino

#18. In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.

Mary Roach

#19. Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin.

Christopher Farnsworth

#20. Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#21. Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build
but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?

Tad Williams

#22. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world

Stefan Zweig

#23. Learn to say No - and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers, and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rats, dry rot, and death-watch beetles are tunnelling away, till, at the very moment of completion, it is ready to fall down.

Cyril Connolly

#25. If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

Greg Gutfeld

#26. Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

Meg Wolitzer

#27. A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#28. You have a tattoo of a woman's necklace on you back, Silas." She's smiling now. "Very lumberjack-esque." She's enjoying this. "Yeah, well. You have trees on you back. Not much to brag about. You'll probably get termites.

Colleen Hoover

#29. In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and

Malcolm Gladwell

#30. 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.

E. O. Wilson

#31. The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.

Milan Kundera

#32. I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Dith Pran

#33. Twitter. You know what it is? Termites with microphones.

Meg Wolitzer

#34. But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Harry S. Truman

#35. The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

Claudia Carroll