Best Burrowing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?”

May Matter Environment Stage Healthy Essentials Function Killing Soil Reasonable Broads Destroying Breaking Down Insects Maintaining Spectrum Crops Insecticides Burrowing

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.”

Writing I Can Animal Wall Corners Holes Furniture Cozy Small Animals Burrowing

Author:Danielle Steel

“People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”

“Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.”

Way House Awareness Fronts Denial Pushing Lawns Basements Showing Up Burrowing

Author:Howard Sasportas

“...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.”

Kind Seems Eye Age Records Photographer Print Collapse Decay Hammers Conspirators Burrowing

Author:Jack Kerouac

“And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.”

Government Grows Responsibility Accepting Citizens Weight Deeper Caring Destined Burrowing

Author:Jeb Bush

“So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.”

Said Body Happens Faces Voice Mines Arms Losing Scared Chests Irrational Foreheads Mia Irrational Fear Burrowing

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”

Ifs Want Wells Littles Book Bigs Girl Too Much Missing Poet Sitting Difficulty Fats Noses Drag Biographies Starving New Books English History Burrowing

Book:A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.”

Ifs Play Hands Courses Animal Hell One Thing Television Thousand Picks Balls Golf Cups Towers Only Time Cables Golf Course Tees Burrowing

Author:Ken Venturi

“They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”

Thinking Way Mean Children Littles Hard Beautiful Divine Notion Creator East Beautiful Things Worms Reconcile Benevolent Eyeballs Hummingbirds East Africa Burrowing

Author:David Attenborough

“Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.”

Humans May Self Humanity Century Self Love Roots Constant African American Selfishness God Love Motive Outburst Languish Sporadic Burrowing

Book:The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

Source: The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

“Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.”

Way Stills Los Angeles Loser Burrowing

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.”

Nature Pleasure Sweet Smell Noses Scent Peas Burrowing Sweet Peas

Book:The Brandons, and others

Source: The Brandons, and others

“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”

“Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.”

Women Animal Frenchmen Burrowing

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.”

Has Beens States Order Weakness Terrorist Burrowing

Author:George P. Shultz