Butterfly Quotes - Page 22

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Moving, Inspiration

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• I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.

  Karlie Kloss

  High Heels, Shoes, Clothes

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• Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Meditation, Going Away

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• The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Flower, Reading

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• Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Strong, Struggle, Artist

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

  Romeo Santos

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Stomach

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• My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'

  Jason Momoa

  Bells, Diving, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Animal, Pie

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

  John Muir

  Perfect, Joy, Fever

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Mind

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.164

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Profound, Forgiving

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.33, Conari Press

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• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Wall, Admire

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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• There is a wonderful place
  where flowers grow in colors
  beyond the words of poets...
  trees sing with the
  songs of butterflies.
  And mythical tigresses look
  at you with fiery golden eyes...
  open your heart
  and feel the colors of magic
  blooming inside you.

  Laurel Burch

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• 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.

  Marketa Irglova

  Beautiful, People, World

  "Q&A: Marketa Irglova shines with new music" by Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.washingtonexaminer.com. June 08, 2012.

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• Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Niece, Unhappy, Today

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Agency, Today, Wonder

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• In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Writing, Cutting

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

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• Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop a feel, / 'cause I'm your virgin crush, your supersafe deal. / Let those other guys keep sexing. / You and me, we be texting / 'bout unicorns and rainbows and our perfect love. / Girl, we fit together like a hand in a glove. / Now I don't mean that nasty, tell your mum don't get mad. / I even wrote 'You're awesome' on your maxi pads.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Crush, Emo

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• You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Eye, Wings

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• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Movement, Branches

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• 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.

  Saigyō

  Flower, Envy, Gone

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• Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.

  Philip Yancey

  Artist, Wings, Space

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• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  Dante Alighieri

  Mean, Leaving, Mind

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

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• Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

  Edith Wharton

  Moving, Archer, Wings

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2116, Delphi Classics

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• The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Easter, Children

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.106, Portobello Books

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