Cicadas Quote by Sam Torode

“The problem with a lot of church people, Craw said, is that they're trying to be holier than Jesus.”

— Sam Torode

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

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

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the great limp…

— Aimé Césaire

“however, while the gnats were swarming like locusts”

— M.F. Lorson

“All that was ordered and stable is shaken. The Æon of Wonders is come. Like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of…

— Aleister Crowley