Quotes About Infestation

Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine.

I used to get nits all the time as a kid. I was six when I first encountered the egg planting hair vermin.

They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the cockroaches crawled and the rats chittered, but the humans were away, infesting some other neighborhood.

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

Their arrival was like an attack of locusts in a rice field, fast and uncontrollable.

Put the grease patty directly on the top bars, off center, and let the bees consume it. While doing so, they'll pick up minute amounts of the grease, foiling further mite infestations.

A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.

Rodents are pests and not pets, and anything that manically runs around a wheel 24/7 and occasionally has 19 babies in the middle of the night should not be brought into the house.

I remember the time I had nits. It all started with an itchy head. I assumed I had a dry scalp and that maybe my extensions had grown out too long.

There were dead rats living in the basement.

HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.

It's an obscenity, the final degradation, that you have been infested by the spoor of such fragile parasites.

I sponged off knickknacks, including the owls that my mother collected, still a manageable quantity. Soon enough they would become an infestation caused by the good intentions and generosity of the many people who adored her.

My hair seems to be such an appealing environment for nits so I have to be on my guard.

Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

they realized it would be impossible to comb the whole infested area in this way and they would have to split up. This was most easily done, obviously, by separating...

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

Demodox folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head and especially in eyelashes, and often in nipples.

Because passion, like crime, does not like everyday order and well-being and every slight undoing of the bourgeois system, every confusion and infestation of the world is welcome to it, because it can unconditionally expect to find its advantage in it.

The tsetse fly infests more than half the mainland,' making cattle and draft animals impracticable in the infected regions.