Ants Quotes

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Marie Dressler

TimeBusyFindGoAntsWorkers

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Bela Lugosi

LivePeopleThinkAfraidAntsLike

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

E. O. Wilson

LandAntsTakeAwayWouldMany

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Mortimer Adler

LiveMenIdeasEngageAntsPursuit

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Patrick Fugit

DayFireAntsGotRoleMovie

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

E. O. Wilson

WorkThinkWayAntsI ThinkAbout

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.

Leslie Hope

BadAntsWereAte

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

P. J. O'Rourke

LoveLivePeopleDieReasonAnts

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

AnimalWorldEvolvingHighAnts

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

BusyEnoughQuestionAntsAbout

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Karel Capek

GodGreatVictoryAntsColonelThou

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

Andrea Corr

LifeQueenWingsWantSameAnts

I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.

Gillian Flynn

GirlHobbyNiceAntsLittleFeeding

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

Adam Ant

ManSurviveWillFirstAntsBecause

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.

Douglas Hofstadter

SoulEvilMoreOutAntsLittle

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

PeopleEndureLeisureAntsCloser

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

E. O. Wilson

OrganizationEarthComplicatedAnts

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.

Dick Cavett

I AmPracticeWorstAlwaysAnts

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.'

Lee Ryan

ThinkSheepLookStreetAlwaysAnts

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

E. O. Wilson

LifeRestLandDeadAntsCreatures

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Clarence Day

GoodPlaceGroupFirstAnts

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.

Hayley Williams

MomKindAntsCashMotownFan

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.

E. O. Wilson

KnowNothingUpAntsInsectsAlmost

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