Butterfly Quote by Charles Dickens

“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are…

— Roger Tory Peterson

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may…

— Soren Kierkegaard

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in…

— Eric Carle

“One lone butterfly flapped his wings somewhere in the vicinity of my spleen. He was probably a scout. No doubt six million other butterflies…

— John Inman

“A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“As a child, he'd found a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. He'd tried to help it by prying open the husk to set the…

— Laura Bacchi

“because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly”

— Gayle Forman

“If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

— Roy Rogers