Age Quote by H. Bentley Glass

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.…

— Georges St-Pierre

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without…

— Alan Weisman

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also…

— Mark Kurlansky

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

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

— Mason Cooley

“I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And…

— Clarice Lispector

“A beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different from…

— Suzy Kassem

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,…

— Michael O'Donoghue

If cockroaches can survive a nuclear blast, what the hell is in raid?

— Anonymous

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying…

— Warren Buffett

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be…

— Diane Ackerman