Caterpillars Quote by Shel Silverstein

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

— Tama J. Kieves

I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a…

— Lucy Christopher

When I was a Caterpillar, I was beautiful, profound, and aware. Yet only once I basked in my Cocoon, And reflected upon the true…

— Eric Nickel

“Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.”

— Thomas Harris

“I stood transfixed, the silence ringing in my ears. From the field of wild grasses; cocksfoot, tufted hair, wild oat, tall fescue, reed canary…

— Nell Grey

“Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar.”

— Lewis Carroll

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

— Vera Pavlova

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?” I grew claws and bayed at…

— Libba Bray

“Like it or not, a caterpillar must first live as a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly. Maybe I remember those days because I am…

— Isao Takahata