Quotes about Ants

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. Votes: 6

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first. Votes: 5

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. Votes: 5

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. Votes: 4

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. Votes: 4

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Votes: 4

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. Votes: 4

Ants are a curious race Votes: 3

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion. Votes: 3

Ants and savages put strangers to death. Votes: 3

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first. Votes: 3

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. Votes: 3

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners. Votes: 3

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. Votes: 3

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. Votes: 3

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey. Votes: 3

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. Votes: 3

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. Votes: 3

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. Votes: 3

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Votes: 3

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? Votes: 3

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground. Votes: 3

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television. Votes: 3

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. Votes: 3

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. Votes: 3

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.' Votes: 3

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. Votes: 3

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants. Votes: 3

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it? Votes: 3

My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded. Votes: 3

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag. Votes: 3

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. Votes: 3

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. Votes: 3

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. Votes: 3

Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.] Votes: 3

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties. Votes: 3

With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails. Votes: 3

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. Votes: 3

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings. Votes: 3

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. Votes: 3

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. Votes: 3

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. Votes: 3

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells. Votes: 3

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism. Votes: 3

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. Votes: 1

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. Votes: 1

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you. Votes: 1

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. Votes: 1

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. Votes: 1

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants. Votes: 1

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. Votes: 1

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. Votes: 1

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants. Votes: 1

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. Votes: 1

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun. Votes: 1

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. Votes: 1

I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began. Votes: 1

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody. Votes: 1

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants. Votes: 1

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 were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Votes: 1

Do ants get headaches? Votes: 0

We are human beings, not ants. Votes: 0

When giants fought, ants were crushed. Votes: 0

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico. Votes: 0

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant. Votes: 0

I wonder what ants do on rainy days? Votes: 0

A whale out of water is over-run by ants. Votes: 0

Do not kill ants. They are your best friends. Votes: 0

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants, Votes: 0

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly Votes: 0

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. Votes: 0

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket. Votes: 0

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. Votes: 0

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions! Votes: 0

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little. Votes: 0

If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. Votes: 0

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. Votes: 0

Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants. Votes: 0

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. Votes: 0

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. Votes: 0

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants. Votes: 0

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. Votes: 0

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food. Votes: 0

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. Votes: 0

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. Votes: 0

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans. Votes: 0

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. Votes: 0

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE! Votes: 0

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. Votes: 0

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. Votes: 0

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. Votes: 0

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? Votes: 0

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. Votes: 0

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. Votes: 0

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around Votes: 0

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. Votes: 0

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed Votes: 0

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . Votes: 0

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance. Votes: 0

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Votes: 0

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. Votes: 0

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. Votes: 0

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. Votes: 0

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. Votes: 0

This isn't a war, said the artilleryman. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. Votes: 0

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs. Votes: 0

I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain. Votes: 0

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. Votes: 0

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. Votes: 0

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. Votes: 0

Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains! Votes: 0

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. Votes: 0

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again. Votes: 0

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow. Votes: 0

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants Votes: 0

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. Votes: 0

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants. Votes: 0

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving. Votes: 0

I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can. Votes: 0

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor. Votes: 0

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions. Votes: 0

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book. Votes: 0

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. Votes: 0

I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works. Votes: 0

If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.... Votes: 0

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants? Votes: 0

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization. Votes: 0

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants. Votes: 0

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood. Votes: 0

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem? Votes: 0

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. Votes: 0

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. Votes: 0

Until we will be able to shape the universe the way we wanted, mankind will not be taken seriously by the universe and he shall remain as insignificant ants of the universe! Votes: 0

I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach. Votes: 0

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none. Votes: 0

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one. Votes: 0

Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever. Votes: 0

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people. Votes: 0

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man? Votes: 0

Liberals, communists, socialists, look at people as workers. They look at 'em as ants, worker ants, worker bees and so forth, and they just plug 'em in to do jobs that need to be done. Votes: 0

Liberals, communists, socialists, look at people as workers. They look at 'em as ants, worker ants, worker bees and so forth, and they just plug 'em in to do jobs that need to be done. Votes: 0

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants. Votes: 0