Butterfly Quotes

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

I 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

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

I 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.

Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.