Worm Quotes

237 quotes by 200 authors

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury… — David Attenborough
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity… — Mikhail Bakunin
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. — Francis Beaumont
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,… — Ambrose Bierce
I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of… — Terry Bradshaw
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em… — Will Carleton
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the… — Jimmy Carter
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. — Winston Churchill
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live… — Teresa Medeiros
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly. — Henry Ward Beecher
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! — Lord Byron
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a… — Kathy Lette
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. — Eugenio Montale
If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late. — Shel Silverstein
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of… — David Attenborough
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth. — William Shakespeare

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