30 Ants Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Kiri Te Kanawa

Good Learning Hurt Not Perfect Values Good Person Few Own Believe Living Other About My Own Perfect Never Stepped Well Been Person Forget Ants Just Taught Anybody Might Really Things

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. Noam Chomsky

Respect Evil Crushed Young Teenager Types Our Some Propaganda Hysteria Mere Like Self-Image Vermin Were Blond Germans Ants Just After Japanese Appalled Utterly Early Imaginary Treated

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first. Clarence Day

Good First Group Citizens Ants Place Interests Good Citizens

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. Lewis Thomas

Technology Communication People Collective Single Big Become Own Community Our Way Members Give Leading How Brain Effect End Up Model Ants Exploding Us Useful Organized Resembling Compare Population

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? Marie Dressler

Time Busy Find Picnic Come How Go Ants Workers

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. Ali Larter

Cooking Dance Girl Own Others Sun Mirrors My Own Idea Towards Liked Armies Boy Off Up Ants Order Burn Wanted Soccer Help Fun Growing Growing Up Play

One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work. Ann Leckie

Work Matter Tea Research Awesome About Writer Textile Ants Being Anything Chocolate Production Productive Nearly Things

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? Beth Orton

Generation Evolution Finds New Like Around Materials Hand Ants Just Little Who Each Each Generation Now Right

It seems to me that as soon as politicians get in, they become part of this club, and the rest of us, beneath them, are just ants running about. They become besotted with their position. David Jason

Me Rest Become Politicians Club Beneath Running About Seems Part Soon Get Ants Just Them Us Position

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. E. O. Wilson

Would Would-Be Take Partial Environments Ecosystems Ants Land Many Away

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. E. O. Wilson

Work Think Way About Affected Ants Humans Profoundly

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. E. O. Wilson

Life Rest Leading Dead Ants Dependent Substantially Them Land Creatures

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. Eddie Rickenbacker

Clouds Thought Men Somewhere White Think Air Earth Sun Would See Above Clear Feel Look How Shining Up Begin Than Patch Ants Blue Bigger Swiftly Watching Below

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. Elizabeth Blackburn

Animals First Living Our Spent Backyard Would About Beach Pick Town Years Up Curious Ants Tiny Sea Near

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. John Galsworthy

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other. Jon Taffer

Fear Fans Mind Black Other Types Those Running Hated Classic Some Guys Crush Come Like Dead Ant Bands Ants Flag Jackson Oh Just Wanted Transition Each Kennedys Adam

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing. Juan Felipe Herrera

Writing Remember Amazing Looking Every Corner Some Color Had Written Red Journals Like Joyce Looked Were Lines Lot Yellow Ants Intense Blue Just James Much Page Filled

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.' Lee Ryan

Sheep Think Everyone Like Look Always Ants Street

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way. Michio Kaku

Day You Hate Internet Think Meet Way Says One Day Super Simply Idea Highway Over Like Terminator Hill Becomes Making Ant Ants Just After Pave Reasonable Humans

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