Gnats Quote by M.F. Lorson

The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of…

— Doris Lessing

“The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands…

— Ray Bradbury

“Barbarian Horde This will be lot and lots of wild-screaming people advancing under a cloud of dust in order to devestate more civilized parts.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works…

— John D. MacDonald

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

— Bob Dylan

“Cicadas,” Craw said. “Also known as locusts. Or, as John the Baptist would say, lunch.” I”

— Sam Torode

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

— Robert Lowell

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind…

— Hamlin Garland

“out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told…

— Joseph M. Chiron

“Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.”

— Gary A. Haugen

“Revelation, Charlie explained, predicted that locusts would come, and locusts were, of course, beetles—the Beatles. John said that the locusts would have “scales like…

— Jeff Guinn