Ants Quotes
253 quotes by 208 authors
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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
— Marie Dressler
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
— Samuel Johnson
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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…
— Andrea Corr
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We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
— Weston La Barre
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What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
— Friedrich Schiller
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When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of…
— Sakya Pandita
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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
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Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
— Clarence Day
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Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All…
— Og Mandino
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Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of…
— Lewis Mumford
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The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If…
— Bert Holldobler
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If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
— Bert Holldobler
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An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
— Tom Hiddleston
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I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
— Joe Morton
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America…
— David Lynch
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
— Toni Morrison
Who Wrote These Ants Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 253 Ants Quotes, led by these top contributors: