Insects Quotes

327 quotes by 261 authors

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for… — Dan Millman
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound… — Elwyn Brooks White
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for… — Henry David Thoreau
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark… — Paul Hawken
The mind is the most capricious of insects â€” flitting, fluttering. — Virginia Woolf
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is… — Mark Twain
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. — Christina Rossetti
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds… — Jules Renard
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an… — Chief Seattle
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If… — William S. Burroughs
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's… — Jeremy Rifkin
Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the… — Ludwig von Mises
Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds… — Henry Beard
Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real… — Michael O'Donoghue

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