There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Votes: 4
R. Buckminster FullerWe are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Votes: 3
Gerald BrenanIs it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Votes: 3
Max MullerI'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly. Votes: 3
Serena WilliamsThe air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings. Votes: 3
Joyce KilmerAs with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. Votes: 1
Joseph B. WirthlinEverybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. Votes: 1
Lynn MargulisAnd when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly. Votes: 1
Tracy MorganShe was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever. Votes: 0
Mary Russell MitfordThe butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly. Votes: 0
Ponce Denis Ecouchard LebrunHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. Votes: 0
George EliotHurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. Votes: 0
Christina RossettiJacksonville's official bird is the butterfly. The butterfly is also Jacksonville's official flower. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzBut on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies. Votes: 0
Jacqueline WoodsonMy friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior. Votes: 0
DeeDee TrotterVoles-tu, mon petit papillon." Illium laughed at Galen's instruction to "fly, little butterfly Votes: 0
Nalini SinghImmortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaChase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails. Votes: 0
Vinita KinraOne can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. Votes: 0
R. Buckminster FullerSatire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Votes: 0
Alexander PopeI'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away. Votes: 0
Thomas Haynes Bayly...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity. Votes: 0
Marlene Van NiekerkAlthough the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. Votes: 0
Kendrick Lamardo what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovFighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly. Votes: 0
Jesse TaylorGreen was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. Votes: 0
Pablo NerudaWe gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! Votes: 0
Drew Bundini BrownI'm turning you into a girlchasing a butterfly, a she-wolfon a hilltop, & then back into a woman. Votes: 0
Yusef KomunyakaaWhat is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinI was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun. Votes: 0
Mata HariGo on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. Votes: 0
Patrick MonahanA red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net. Votes: 0
Barbara AscherThe butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. Votes: 0
Anthony de MelloFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliOh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour. Votes: 0
Amy LowellThey seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods Votes: 0
Edith WhartonYou're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected? Votes: 0
T.A. BarronThe term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon. Votes: 0
Tessa ThompsonOpen your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. Votes: 0
Zeenat AmanA butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreI never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie. Votes: 0
Benedict CumberbatchIt's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation. Votes: 0
Georges St-PierreAm I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man? Votes: 0
Dennis VickersHe is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular. Votes: 0
Mikhail BaryshnikovWhen someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar. Votes: 4 Rita Zahara
Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world. Votes: 3 Marketa Irglova
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums. Votes: 3 Jeremiah Walton
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. Votes: 1 Louie Schwartzberg
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Votes: 2 Gary Zukav