Locusts Quotes

“however, while the gnats were swarming like locusts”

— M.F. Lorson

“Cicadas,” Craw said. “Also known as locusts. Or, as John the Baptist would say, lunch.” I”

— Sam Torode

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

— Bob Dylan

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

— Robert Lowell

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our…

— Gary A. Haugen

“All that was ordered and stable is shaken. The Æon of Wonders is come. Like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the…

— Aleister Crowley

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the…

— Aimé Césaire

From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance…

— Hamlin Garland

“Revelation, Charlie explained, predicted that locusts would come, and locusts were, of course, beetles—the Beatles. John said that the locusts would have…

— Jeff Guinn

“out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They…

— Joseph M. Chiron

New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how…

— John D. MacDonald