..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!
They say Ant and Dec are a double act, but they are just presenters. They read off an Autocue and they don't do gags, so that doesn't count.
Well, I think Ant and Dec clearly liked me because 'Saturday Night Takeaway' is basically 'Noel's House Party.'
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.
I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
I'll worry about something and get stressed whereas Ant is usually a bit more chilled about things.
I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.
It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
My wife was pregnant while we were promoting 'Ant-Man,' and that was very exciting, to see, like, action figures of myself, as we're getting the nursery ready.
We had one big album and we started working on the 'Ant and Dec Show' and we had a really good time.
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
Turn on the prudent
Ant, thy heedful eyes,
Observe her labours,
Sluggard, and be wise.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
I am a party worker ant - always have been, always will be.
It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.
When we became TV presenters, I found a place for myself and Ant bought the house for sale two doors away.
Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
'Guardians Of The Galaxy' was, as 'Ant-Man' was, just fun, in terms of expanding this universe. We always say, how can we keep audiences surprise at what an MCU film can be?
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
Ant is like a big kid and life feels so much more positive with him in it. He really helps ground me.
We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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.
The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.
I was a bit nervous before I got married and Ant said to me: 'Honestly, it just gets better.' It's amazing and the best thing I ever did.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.
Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.
Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.
Ant has been so supportive. He's very grounded. As he entered my world, there's so many false stories spinning out there and he's never said one word to me about any of it.
I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.
I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.
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.
I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation's aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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