Ants Busy Quotes & Sayings

Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else. — Keri Hilson

But the remarkable thing about the beetles was their sensitivity to all the grammar and directives and slogans and even unstated desires of the ant world, which they learned to manipulate. They first memorized the proper antenna-vibration and foreleg-tap which the ants themselves used to request food. The poor workers, busy going here and there and back again all day and never getting a chance to think, automatically assumed that these fearsome strangers had been authorized by the Central Committee since they knew the password, and so they regurgitated a drop or two of fruit juice on cue, much the same as when one is traveling across Europe or Asia on the train and a person in uniform requests one's passport, one's ticket, takes them away, and comes back, or else does not come back, having sold them; a badge and a superior manner can obtain anything in this world. — William T. Vollmann

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau

The sands are the children's great resort. They cluster there, like ants: so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with infinite labour which the next tide overthrows, that it is curious to consider how their play, to the music of the sea, foreshadows the realities of their after lives. — Charles Dickens

The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies and the little dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him.
He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it. — John Steinbeck

It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau — Brian P. Moran

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I — Dave Ramsey

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task. — Mark Ruffalo

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

No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska

Thoreau said: "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about? — Anonymous

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. — Friedrich List

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. — John Carroll

Ants are busy. They have too much to do to feel bad. — Marshall Thornton

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man? — Marcus Aurelius

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. — William Penn