Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“There’s a butterfly that has been hovering around the window. It doesn’t know where to go. I am that butterfly.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Don't be too desperate, life is like butterfly the more you chase it the more it eludes you, just let it swings,… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be a butterfly caught on the breeze, floating and free finally, my knowledge of who this man really was… — Sarah Michelle Lynch Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“like a delicate butterfly to us, who, carefree and exhilarated, fluttered right into the lamp of life, scorching her fine wings. uns… — Ernst Benkard Copy Share Image
“Wings are of many kinds. Butterfly's wings, vulture's wings, eagle-wings, spread wings of white swans, dragonfly's serene wings, wings of albatross, lovely… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar… — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain... — Winfield Townley Scott Copy Share Image
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Just when the caterpillar thinks that it is all grown up, it becomes a butterfly. Happy Birthday Butterfly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change… — Dean Jackson Copy Share Image
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be… — Sophie Pascoe Copy Share Image
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly;… — Juliette Adam Copy Share Image
“You're saying one day I'll be a butterfly,” he says skeptically. I look up. “I'm saying you've always been one.” — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
“Her warm body is wrapped in the shape of a cocoon. Only her spirit will spread its wings and become a beautiful… — Michelle Chauvin Copy Share Image
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“I felt him move and turned my head to deflect his kiss so that it landed on the side of my jaw… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain,… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach. — Marcus O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
