Worm Quotes - page 6

Snail, snail, glister me forward, Bird, soft-sigh me home, Worm, be with me. This is my hard time. (Theodore Roethke)
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. View quote
William James
This is where we store our bicycles. A lot of people ride their bikes to work here. And, of course, there has to be a robot to protect them and make sure they don't get stolen like R2D2 in episode two where he did a very bad job in protecting Princess Amidala from those worm things. But this robot is significantly more effective as a theft-deterrent system than R2D2 was in that film. That's why the bikes are here. View quote
Phil Vischer
There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call honorary town councilors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometimes. It has nothing to do with me. Yet the fact that the cow chose me to obtain her pliers changes everything. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
Transferring the receptor from a social worm to a solitary worm makes the solitary worm social. View quote
Eric Kandel
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant. View quote
David Attenborough
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that. View quote
David Attenborough
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. View quote
Willie Nelson
I've got a woolly worm for ya! (Bill Allred)
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God. View quote
John Wesley
The worm stood straight on God's blood-splattered threshold then and beat his drum. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I saw a worm, with many a fold; It spun itself a silken tomb; And there in winter time enrolled, It heeded not the cold or gloom. View quote
Jones Very
The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. View quote
William Cowper
a robin said to an angleworm as he ate him i am sorry but a bird has to live somehow the worm being slow witted could not gather his dissent into a wise crack and retort he was effectually swallowed before he could turn a phrase. View quote
Don Marquis
demons and fishhooks he exclaimed i am losing my personal identity as a worm my individuality is melting away from me odds craw i am becoming part and parcel of this bloody robin so help me i am thinking like a robin and not like a worm any longer yes yes i even find myself agreeing that a robin must live i still do not understand with my mentality why a robin must live and yet i swoon into a condition of belief. View quote
Don Marquis
On a tree by a river a little tomtit Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow" And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing ‘Willow, titwillow, titwillow?'. "Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried, "Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?" (W. S. Gilbert)
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm:. View quote
William Blake
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
Drab Habitation of Whom Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire. View quote
Vitruvius