Top 30 Ants Quotes

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

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

The fact that we can’t easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we’re like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?

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.

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.

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.

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

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

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.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I’d set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

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?

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.

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.

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

I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.

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.

I love being in a small club where everybody has a good seat, and we don’t look like ants. And you can feel the audience, which makes it kind of magical, and I miss that. I guess I have the best of both worlds.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he‘s definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

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

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.

I can’t imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.