Cockroaches Quotes

• Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Bird, Missing, Wells

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• As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Secret, Poison

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• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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• Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?

  Wayne Dyer

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• A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Survival, Age, Dinosaurs

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• I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Survivor

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• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

  Herb Caen

  Stay Strong, Anger, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

  Warren Buffett

  Light, Kitchen, Turns

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

  William Howard Taft

  Religious, Dark, Men

  Speech to the Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York, December 20, 1914.

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• You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Shameless, Ashamed

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• I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

  Jay London

  Military, Training, Bombs

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• Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

  Tanya Huff

  Answers, Violence, Sometimes

  Tanya Huff (2007). “Blood Trail”, p.31, Penguin

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• How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Laughter, Shoes

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Desire, Fiction

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• Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

  Peter Drucker

  Hard Times, Elephants, Adapting

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• What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

  Russell Baker

  Couple, Home, Tree

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• I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Fearless, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Stars, Memories

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• I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

  Norman Mailer

  Horse, Women, Cat

  "The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

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• Frog has no nerves.
  Frog is as old as a cockroach.
  Frog is my father's genitals.
  Frog is a malformed doorknob.
  Frog is a soft bag of green.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Green, Frogs

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Party, Men, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

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• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Interesting, Fearless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Art, Taken, Mills

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• Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Should Have, Giving

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Strong

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