Caterpillar Quotes
83 quotes by 72 authors
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the…
— Richard Bach
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into…
— Anton Chekhov
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
— William Blake
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You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when…
— Charles Darwin
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The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
— Timothy Leary
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I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and…
— Theodore Roethke
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become…
— Robert Wyatt
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
— Andre Gide
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I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a…
— Gene Wilder
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James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He…
— Terry Bradshaw
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
— Guillermo del Toro
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
— Anthony de Mello
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Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies? One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now.
— Jack Handey
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I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly
— Harry Turtledove
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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice…
— Michael Beckwith
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Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he…
— John Steinbeck
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When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable…
— Richard Heinberg
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Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.
— Nhat Hanh
Who Wrote These Caterpillar Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 83 Caterpillar Quotes, led by these top contributors: