Insect Quotes

111 quotes by 99 authors

Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. — Ray Bradbury
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be… — Charles Darwin
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some… — Steve Irwin
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. — Samuel Johnson
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music… — David Lynch
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect. — Karl Pilkington
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me… — Lewis Thomas
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its… — Henry David Thoreau
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka
There are no insect eggs in my food.â€ Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,â€ Nate suggested. — Brandon Mull
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable… — David Foster Wallace
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe. — Jostein Gaarder
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as… — Albert Einstein
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceâ€”or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of… — Arthur C. Clarke
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame

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