Color Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

“As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for…

— Park Yeon-mi

“Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.”

— Bryana Johnson

If the Halcyon days of a Mediterranean winter, god-blessed, were good enough for sublime kingfishers they should certainly have something to offer us all.

— Bettany Hughes

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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…

— Heinrich Heine

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

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,…

— Italo Calvino

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

— Simon Barnes

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

— James Thurber

“She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the…

— Virginia Woolf