Top 244 Ants Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
Explore popular Ants quotes.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?
I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
I can't sit at one place for long in my own house, forget about 'Bigg Boss.' I have ants in my pants.
Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
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.
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.
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.
I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.
One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work.
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
We all do it the same way
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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.
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
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.
If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for.
If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.
I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded.
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.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.
I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.
