Ants Quotes
253 quotes by 209 authors
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
— A. S. Byatt
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
— Jonathan Carroll
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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…
— Adam Ant
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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…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
— Victor Hugo
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental…
— Charles Darwin
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There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into…
— Winston Churchill
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
— E. O. Wilson
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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…
— Clarence Day
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The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone…
— Murray Rothbard
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
— Gerald Brenan
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the…
— Michio Kaku
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All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
— Ben Hecht
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I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But…
— Oren Lyons
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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…
— Al-Ghazali
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I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the…
— Isak Dinesen
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