Mosquitoes Quotes

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  If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

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• If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Graduation, Encouraging

  "Bloody Wonderful: Goodbye, Anita Roddick" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2007.

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• Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

  Katherine Applegate

  Earth, Mass, Planets

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• Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.

  Kirk Kirkpatrick

  Motivational, Opportunity, Waiting

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• Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Fall, Thinking, Differences

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• Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

  Robert G. Allen

  Monsters, Life Is, Distraction

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• I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

  Skeet Ulrich

  League, Flying, Littles

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

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• mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Ankles, Insects, Filling

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• To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Song, Mesh, Soothing

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• Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.71, Doubleday

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• The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

  Bill Gates

  Long, Innovation, Progress

  "Charting a Course to End Malaria" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

  Dennis Rainey

  People, Rooms, Bother

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• We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Moon, People, Mars

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• Gossip is the social mosquito.

  Myrtle Reed

  Gossip, Social

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.

  Kenneth Williams

  Target, Roving

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

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• Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

  David Allen

  Games, Ruins, Bigs

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.1, Penguin

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• I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

  John Muir

  Animal, Meals, Said

  John Muir (1972). “Trails of wonder: writings on nature and man”

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• You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Want, Faces

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Sharks, Years

  "The Deadliest Animal in the World" by Bill Gates, www.gatesnotes.com. April 25, 2014.

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• The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Animal, Spiders, Way

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

  Andy Warhol

  Humorous, Bird, Jersey

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• Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

  Richard Stallman

  Fighting, Patents, Malaria

  Newsforge, September 09, 2004.

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• Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Pain, Attitude

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• Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Blood, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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