Butterfly Quotes

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

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

he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.