Ants Quote by Rachel Caine

Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one…

— Shannon Hale

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans…

— Noam Chomsky

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a…

— Roger Lowenstein

So, been attacked by any vampires yet?" "Not one." "Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?" It's been really quiet on the supernatural front" "Too bad,…

— Rachel Caine

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes…

— Fannie Flagg

Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites…

— William T. Vollmann

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

— Bert Holldobler

“THE FIGHTERS ARE TINY. INSECTS, REALLY. BUT ANTS CAN SLAY AN ELEPHANT, IF THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM. ESPECIALLY ANTS ARMED WITH HIGH-YIELD EXPLOSIVES…

— Amie Kaufman

There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance.…

— Raph Koster

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

— Lauren Oliver