Cockroach Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,… — Diane Ackerman
Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as… — Isaac Asimov
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — H. L. Mencken
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of… — William Howard Taft
A cockroach canâ€™t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One… — Georges St-Pierre
You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually,… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never… — Sanaa Lathan
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which… — Michael O'Donoghue
Iâ€™m not a bloody cockroach. Whatâ€™s all this about? What are you trying to find out? — Amanda Hocking
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success. — Mason Cooley
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view. — Harry Markopolos
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like… — Ian Shoales
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could. — Joseph Wood Krutch
A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the… — Criss Jami
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've… — Eddie Van Halen
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike. — Jeffrey Kluger
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. — Joseph Wood Krutch
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not… — Don Marquis

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