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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• 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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• Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?

  Wayne Dyer

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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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• Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

  Cher

  Thinking, Holocaust, Survival

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

  Peter Drucker

  Hard Times, Elephants, Adapting

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Shoes, Way

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.16, Penguin

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• As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Morning, Bed

  The Metamorphosis ch. 1 (1915) (translation byWilla and Edwin Muir)

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• The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Scary, Looks, Aliens

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• The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Experts, Wrecks, Psychologist

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan

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• I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

  Brooke Burke

  Ocean, Lobster, Shrimp

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• My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Animal, Light

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