Butterfly Quotes

581 quotes by 447 authors

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the… — John Dewey
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
Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.... — Denise Levertov
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
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
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense… — Mary Meeker
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. — Li Bai
Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing? — Dana Burnet
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know… — Zhuangzi
I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies. — Stacey Dash
And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried? — Tori Amos
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
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
I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around… — Caspar David Friedrich
The best speakers know enough to be scaredâ€¦the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to… — Edward R. Murrow
It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning. — Gunter Grass
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire-- — Nelly Sachs
Itâ€™s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation. — Georges St-Pierre
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes… — Ally Condie
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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