We Are The Ants Quotes

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

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

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

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

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

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

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

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

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

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.

António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential' and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.

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

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

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.

People in every direction No words exchanged No time to exchange And all the little ants are marching Red and black antennas waving They all do it the same We all do it the same way

Do ants get headaches?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We are human beings, not ants.

We can navigate by looking at ant mounds.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

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

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

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

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

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?

When giants fought, ants were crushed.

She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

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

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.

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

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

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

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?

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

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.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.