Dragonflies Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it
— Mackenzie Foy
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big…
— John Marsden
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It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.
— Jimi Hendrix
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And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never…
— Clive Barker
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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many…
— Heinrich Heine
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he…
— Ziggy Marley
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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!…
— Victor Hugo
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He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds,…
— Tom Robbins
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I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that…
— Philip Pullman
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Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.…
— Diane Ackerman
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Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
— Kobayashi Issa
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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
— Janet Fitch
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Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine.…
— Kim Harrison
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Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long,…
— Tove Jansson
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows…
— Aberjhani
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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange…
— Derrick Jensen
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
— James Thurber
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Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture…
— Italo Calvino
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Dragonflies Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Dragonflies Quotes as follows: