Termite Quotes

#1. I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.

Mary Roach

#2. You will be swindled by termite exterminators and not even know it. You will buy steel-belted radial tires for the front wheels of your car.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.

Bruce Littlefield

#4. You do realize that you are a termite. You are eating through my soul.

Mary Amato

#5. The work to eradicate corruption must begin from the top. It is spread like termite in our country. We have to work at all levels to eradicate corruption

Narendra Modi

#6. Jayne Anne Phillips ... is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite ... This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

Robert Olen Butler

#7. A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

Manny Farber

#8. Some primal termite knocked on wood.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.

Ogden Nash

#9. C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)

Richard Preston

#10. I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

Lewis Thomas

#11. Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. Ignoring your subconscious is like neglecting the termite infestation in your basement. Sooner or later, the consequences of neglect will far outweigh the momentary unpleasantness of clearing the nests.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#13. Alone a termite is powerless, but in large numbers they overthrow entire buildings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

Lacey Chabert

#15. 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

#16. Do you think she was gay before or after she started watching Xena?" the male squirrel asked. "That subtext works like a nasty termite. It undermines the structure of human females from within.

Blayne Cooper

#17. Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

John Leguizamo

#18. In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

Jill Lepore

#19. Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Daniel Goleman

#20. Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

Theodore Levitt

#21. Abstain from animals.

Pythagoras

#22. For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

James Brown

#23. Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

Pablo Picasso

#24. We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

Jorge Ramos

#25. Life is like business, 20% of what happens to you is 80% of how you react.

Daymond John

#26. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Catherine E. McLean

#27. Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature
and only that.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#28. The more I think I know, I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.

L.J. Vanier

#29. France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children,

Bruno Le Maire

#30. If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

Steven Wright