Ants Quotes

253 Ants quotes by 206 unique authors

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. — E. O. Wilson
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world… — E. O. Wilson
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated… — E. O. Wilson
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in… — E. O. Wilson
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy… — Willard Wigan
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of… — Terry Pratchett
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits… — Toni Morrison
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? — Alfred Lord Tennyson
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. — H.G. Wells
Every ant Â knows the Â formula of its ant-hill, every Â bee knows Â the formula Â of its Â beehive. They know it Â in their own way, not in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… — Robin McKinley
Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i… — P. C. Cast
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. — Frederick Buechner
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or… — Ronald Reagan
I wonder what ants do on rainy days? — Haruki Murakami

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