Ants Quotes

253 quotes by 209 authors

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
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
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
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
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
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
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
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
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
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan
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
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
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little. — Lafcadio Hearn
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht
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
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
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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