Butterfly Quotes

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

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

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.

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.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!

If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!

I 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.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?