The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered…

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

— Robert Herrick

“A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at…

— Herman Melville

I used to watch old clips of Muhammad Ali, where he'd be talking the jive during interviews, you know, 'Float like a butterfly, sting…

— Michael Buffer

My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons…

— Marco Roth

I just think about what I am doing on my side of the net, which requires focus. Even after all the years I've been…

— Karch Kiraly

When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we…

— Mary Meeker

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself…

— Andre Gide

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to…

— Peter S. Beagle

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

— William Blake

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you…

— Douglas Coupland

“Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want…

— Harley King

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a…

— Lauren Oliver

One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on…

— Pauline Oliveros

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the…

— Taylor Swift