Butterfly Quotes - Page 25

• I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.

  Jennie Finch

  Dad, Player, Thinking

  Source: fastpitch.tv

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• Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

  Laini Taylor

  Heart, Drawing, Together

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• I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

  Harry Styles

  Found, Happens

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2013

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• Love is like a butterfly
  As soft and gentle as a sigh
  The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
  Love makes your heart feel strange inside
  It flutters like soft wings in flight
  Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Love Is, Wings

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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• Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Mom And Daughter, Needs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Order, Wings, Drawing

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• 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.

  Nathalia Crane

  Blue, Vision, Red

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

  Matsuo Basho

  Wings, Incense

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.166 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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• 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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Sweet, Fire, Light

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.204, Penguin

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• What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.

  Flora Thompson

  Thinking, Men, Dust

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.

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• I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hands, Dying, Degrees

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.235, Penguin

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• We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.

  Max Lucado

  Loss, Thinking, Heaven

  Max Lucado (2011). “Max On Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The butterflies will be jangling.

  Gabby Logan

  "What United fans are trying to smuggle into the Etihad..." by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. April 29, 2012.

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Girl, Summer, Together

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Crush, Letting Go, Swimming

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• ...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Soul, Captivity, Persons

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• I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Husband, Hunting, Missing

  "The Life of Mary Russell Mitford", vol. 1, by Mary Russell Mitford, (letter to Sir William Elford, 1st Baronet), 1870.

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Hurt, Children

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Doors, Color

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.103

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• It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

  Theodore Parker

  Nature, Nice, Fire

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

  Tanith Lee

  Blood, Towers, Scarves

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• With drooping bells of clearest blue
  Thou didst attract my childish view,
  Almost resembling
  The azure butterflies that flew
  Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
  So lightly trembling.

  Reginald Heber

  Blue, Views, Bells

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 353), 1922.

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

  Nalini Singh

  Littles, Instruction, Galen

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