Butterfly Quotes

581 quotes by 447 authors

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
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustnâ€™t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to… — Daniel Tammet
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the… — James Gleick
I still get butterflies when England are playing. — Alan Shearer
It was a completely new feeling for meâ€“like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying… — Laura Miller
My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior. — DeeDee Trotter
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no… — Brigid Brophy
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
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of… — Anthony Venn-Brown
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. — Guillermo del Toro
The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular… — Gerald Durrell
True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like… — Ellen G. White
I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could… — Daryl Hannah
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
...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her… — Barbara Hambly
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
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony de Mello
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only… — Zhuangzi

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