You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the…

Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me.…

— Douglas R. Oberhelman

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

— John Harricharan

“Many caterpillars defend themselves not by striking fear in the hearts of their predators, but rather indifference. The large maple spanworm looks like a…

— Amy Leach

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

— Jesse Taylor

Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a…

— Noam Chomsky

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

— Tama J. Kieves

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

— Andre Gide

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,

— Lewis Carroll

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

— Guillermo del Toro

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

— Robert Kagan

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

— Cornelia Funke

My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar…

— Zhuangzi

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as…

— Jamie Hyneman

The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its…

— Humphry Davy

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

— Anthony de Mello