Quotes About Ant

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

Black Flag once showed up at Tower Records and totally disrupted Adam Ant during his big in-store appearance… they bombed the place with thousands of flyers saying BLACK FLAG KILLS ANTS ON CONTACT!

Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk about the Leary men.

I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Hmmm. If you're going to threaten to claw a cat's ears, you should try not to look so terrified at the prospect. Firepaw, would you like to try? Ah, yes, I like that you indicated the rest of your patrol. It's always good to let the enemy know they're outnumbered. Sandpaw, put that fire ant down. No, I don't care that Firepaw might not know what it is. Now is not the right time to show him—and he certainly doesn't need to get bitten by one.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Look to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways and be wise: Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, Provides her meat in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. —PROVERBS 6:6–8

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

A FORMIGA Sete palmos, sete metros, anda a formiga por dia (sete palmos a correr, sete metros devagar), só para lamber o mel que lentamente escorria quer da boca quer do pão quer dos dedos do Miguel.

Then the little Brazilian maid brought in their supper, which was the same as lunch and the same as breakfast--brown beans stewed with pigs' trotters. Mr. Low dug about in it gloomily, looking for bits of gristle, and Mr. Trapwood found a dead ant on his plate. It seemed to be a perfectly clean ant, but he gagged and pushed his plate away. "This place is closer to hell on earth than anywhere I've been," he said.

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

When the mind swings by a grass-blade an ant's forefoot shall save you

finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Scaling little ladders with glue pots and pails of lysol. I crawl like an ant in mourning over the weedy acres of your brow to mend the immense skull-plates and clear the bald, white tumuli of your eyes. A blue sky out of Oresteia....

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Glass is sand and sand is glass! The ant dancing blind as blind ants do on the lip of the rim and the rim of the lip. White in the night and grey in the day- smiling spider she never smiles but smile she does though the ant never sees, blind as it is- and now was!

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

Ant swarming City City full of dreams Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Ant's eyes rounded. He knew the candy bar cost five cents. A fortune. "Chocolate!" He peeled back the wrapper slowly, revealing a sharp brown corner, which he bit off in a mouselike nibble. Savoring.

I was a bit nervous before I got married and Ant said to me: 'Honestly, it just gets better.' It's amazing and the best thing I ever did.