Butterfly Quotes
+3They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
- Edith Wharton
+1Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
- R.H. Heinlein
+1I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
- Charles Dickens
+1I’ll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali
+1Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.
- Deborah Chaskin
+1And what’s a butterfly? At best, He’s but a caterpillar, at rest.
- John Grey
+1The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.
- Ponce Denis
+1The green grass and the happy skies court the fluttering butterflies.
- Astrid Alauda
+1We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
- Carl Sagan
+1The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
- George Carlin
+1There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
- Richard Buckminster
+1What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
+1And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
- Philip Larkin
+1Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
- Elizabeth Goudge
+1We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou
+1The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.
- Li Po
+1This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- Joseph Conrad
+1Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?
- Dante Alighieri
+1Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
- Rabindranath Tagore
+1Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
- Drew Barrymore
+1Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
+1May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To bring you luck, happiness and riches Today, tomorrow and beyond.
- Irish Blessing
+1I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
- Robert Wyatt
+1I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who’s an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
- Damien Hirst
+1I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It’s a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
- Karl Kraus
+1The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
- Richard Bach
-1The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
