I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

- Adam Ant

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

- Bela Lugosi

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?

- Beth Orton

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

- Clarence Day

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

- Dick Cavett

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.

- E. O. Wilson

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

- E. O. Wilson

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

- E. O. Wilson

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

- Gerald Brenan

My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded.

- Hayley Williams

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

- Henry David Thoreau

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.

- Leslie Hope

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

- Marie Dressler

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

- Patrick Fugit

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

- Willard Wigan