„And striving to be man, the wormMounts through all the spires of form.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm“
— William Shakespeare
„They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.“
— Anthony Burgess
„All patterns of what shall be in the Mount;The whole temporal show related royally,And build up to eterne significanceThrough the open arms of God.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„Through it all I learned the value of being humble to the dust, reduced to ashes. Everyone should experience that. Before you can recognize you're somebody, you have to know you're nobody. [-] The butterfly was just a lowly worm in its beginning. The worm didn't live with the moment-to-moment expectation of sprouting wings and taking flight. He lived a useful and productive life, the life of a worm. And he had to die a worm in order to be born as an angel! The spinning of the cocoon is, in and of itself, remarkable. It is as wondrous as the emergence and first flight of the butterfly.“
— Henry Miller
„You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon’s father we’re discussing.”“We’re not just discussing him; we’re chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he’s turned into a worm.“
— Cassandra Clare