Insects Quotes

You pick the insects off plants

— MGMT

“Eat bees and you will have a stinging appetite.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Insects all business all the time.”

— David Foster Wallace

I love insects. They are amazing.

— Andrea Arnold

“To a good approximation, all species are insects.”

— Anonymous

“Dragonflies say "mystery" to me.”

— Cindy Crosby

“What did the weevils say? ‘We-evil!”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

— Martin Rees

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

— Lord Dunsany

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

— Shana Alexander

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

— Henry Spencer

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

— Richard Leakey

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

— Don Henley

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

— Edna O'Brien

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like…

— James Bertolino

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by…

— Steven Weinberg

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike,…

— Michael O'Donoghue

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken…

— Aldo Leopold

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of…

— E. O. Wilson

A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a…

— Dylan Thomas

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea…

— Don Marquis

“The steps, also brick, were lined on both sides with potted plants. Grandma grew lemongrass, citronella, and catnip in those pots to…

— Rhonda McKnight

Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look…

— Seth Shostak

Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some…

— Kuki Gallmann

The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special.…

— Lisa Kleypas

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from…

— Edward Young

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity…

— Hal Borland

Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass…

— Ludwig von Mises

And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it…

— Jack Finney

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows…

— Hans Zinsser

..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over…

— Elizabeth Scott

“I hate most bugs. Bugs fall into two categories as far as I'm concerned: Butterflies—which I want to play with, take pictures…

— Jill Falter

“Just listen to this: take two fruit flies and leave them in ideal living conditions for a year - equivalent to 25…

— Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance…Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms…

— William A. Dembski

“Laila could picture the flow of traffic all around her. From above, she watched the cars move along in streams like all…

— Cliff Jones Jr

“Another instance when I see sparkles is when I do a kind deed for an insect or animal. I often put beetles,…

— Sarah Rajkotwala

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it…

— David Eddings