Butterfly Quotes
581 quotes by 447 authors
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One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then…
— Niels Bohr
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I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's…
— Karl Kraus
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
— Robert Graves
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Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
— Unknown Author
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How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.
— Unknown Author
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
— Robert Frost
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The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.
— Jamie Redknapp
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Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
— Paul Tsongas
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Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
— Annie Besant
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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the…
— Ray Kroc
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On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
— Claude Debussy
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We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!
— Drew Bundini Brown
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For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if…
— Bryce Dessner
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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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And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
— Tracy Morgan
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I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a…
— Eugene Mirman
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You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.
— Mike Markkula
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a…
— Imogene Coca
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I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day,…
— Danilo Kis
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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
Who Wrote These Butterfly Quotes
447 authors contributed a total of 581 Butterfly Quotes, led by these top contributors: