Caterpillars Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caterpillars Men Nations Should Tents
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share
“The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“I feel like the caterpillar that we think is making a choice when he eats or pupates but, in fact, is not. He's ruled… — Poppy Adams Copy Share Image
“A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me.… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home.… — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths… - Iggy — James Patterson Copy Share Image
