Butterfly Quotes

581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore… — Kealan Patrick Burke
History is often the tale of small momentsâ€”chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidenceâ€”that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse… — Scott Anderson
If everyone is speaking caterpillar, donâ€™t be afraid to speak butterfly. When itâ€™s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you. — Tama J. Kieves
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss. — Ouida
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart… — D. H. Lawrence
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would… — Andre Gide
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. — Alma Gluck
Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles. — Eva Green
I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help! — Josh Groban
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. — Joseph Conrad
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. — Charles Dickens
It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' — Novak Djokovic
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no… — Ernest Hemingway
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing. — Joan Jett

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