Mosquitoes Quotes - Page 5

• [On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

  Ralph Klein

  Funny, Cities, Fine

  Ralph Klein's remarks of Edmonton (1990), as quoted in "Welcome to Ralph's World: 10 of Ralph Klein's most colourful quotes" by Andrea Janus, www.ctvnews.ca. March 29, 2013.

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• If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Lines, Lawyer

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• We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ants, Cricket, Ends

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• Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion.

  Demetri Martin

  Jesus, Communion, Bites

  FaceBook post by Demetri Martin from Nov 24, 2013

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• As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

  James Carville

  Water, Parasites, Kenneth

  James Carville (1999). “And The Horse He Rode In On: The People v. Kenneth Starr”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It's confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California.

  Laura Harrington

  Spring, Thinking, Florida

  "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.

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• I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

  Winona Ryder

  Running, Careers, Ruth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Clever, Friendly

  "Giant spider takes up residence at Tate", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2007.

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• My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Beautiful, Love Is, Tree

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• Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.

  Chinua Achebe

  Laughter, Thinking, Skeletons

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.53, Heinemann

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• In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

  Erma Bombeck

  Size, Flight, Plans

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• I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Morning, Midnight

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.291

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

  Jack London

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  Jack London (2016). “Oxford Children's Classics: The Call of the Wild”, p.92, Oxford University Press - Children

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

  Anita Roddick

  Women, Believe, Differences

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• The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hammers, Nuclear

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• in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Meditation, Feelings

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• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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• The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Ideas, Yield, Average

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• Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.

  Laura Harrington

  New York, Believe, Islands

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

  Vera Nazarian

  Mean, Night, Vampire

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Divorce, Eight

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• The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

  William Beebe

  Men, Rivers, Water

  William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well, since they’re both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Driving, Insects, Wells

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