Cockroach Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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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
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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
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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
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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A cockroach can’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
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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
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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
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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
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I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?
— Amanda Hocking
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As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
— Mason Cooley
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I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.
— Harry Markopolos
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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
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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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
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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
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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
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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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
Who Wrote These Cockroach Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Cockroach Quotes, led by these top contributors: