Insects Quotes

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

Specialization is for insects.

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Flies are the price we pay for summer.

Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.

We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

I think it's so archaic that cosmetic companies are still using animal by-products and insects in their products! It's 2016, why is anyone still doing that?

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

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

Angels are just pretty insects.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

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.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.