Best Butterflies Quotes
366 Butterflies quotes by 282 unique authors
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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 reversed…
— Unknown Author
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
— Edward Abbey
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We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....
— Denise Levertov
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.…
— Eva Paterson
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The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.
— Li Bai
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I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.
— Stacey Dash
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In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud…
— Eban Goodstein
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they…
— Eudora Welty
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The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to…
— Edward R. Murrow
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It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.
— Gunter Grass
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World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--
— Nelly Sachs
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On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every…
— Heather O'Neill
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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your…
— Edwidge Danticat
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I still get butterflies when England are playing.
— Alan Shearer
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It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying…
— Laura Miller
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It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes…
— George Vaillant
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I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but…
— John Eliot
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Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road,…
— Thomas Hood
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Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
— Paul Saffo
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The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.
— George H. W. Bush
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I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then…
— Alber Elbaz
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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of…
— Brendan Gill
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