Butterfly Quotes - Page 8

• The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.

  Jacob August Riis

  Photography, Latin, Flower

  Jacob August Riis (1901). “The Making of an American”

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• I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Moving, Thinking

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• 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 for 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.

  Pat Barker

  Cutting, Soul, Mind

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• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  Edwidge Danticat

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Angel, Interesting, Coffins

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• Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever she saw him at work—something like butterflies in her stomach, it was actually quite annoying; no more stress; no more fights in the library; and definitely no more sexy I’m-gonna-kiss-you-now-woman blue-eyed heated gazes. She had no idea why she just thought that.

  Julie James

  Sexy, Stress, Fighting

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.113, Penguin

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• And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

  Tori Amos

  Framed, Like You

  Song: Butterfly

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• The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.

  John Ray

  Eye, Men, Use

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• To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.

  Krystal

  Heart, Broken, Feelings

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• We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Gilded

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• And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Wings, Humanity

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• The butterfly went to heaven and became a butterfly necktie.

  Onew

  Heaven, Neckties

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• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Wings, Causes, Hurricanes

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• Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

  Philip Pullman

  Writing, Bees, Like A Butterfly

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Mean, Two, Firsts

  "Kristin Cavallari: ‘I Want To Be Seen As A Serious Actress’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. July 14, 2009.

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Long, Obsessed, Magpies

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I want to chase the butterflies.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Want

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Wolfcry”, p.171, Delacorte Press

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• The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

  Virginia Woolf

  Shade, Lasts, Tough

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Teacher, Hair, Orange

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.

  Stephen Fry

  Names, Brave, World

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• But on paper, things can live forever.
  On paper, a butterfly
  never dies.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Forever, Paper, Dies

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.215, Penguin

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• When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Prayer, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 14, 2013

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• O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Smart, Names

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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