Caterpillars Quotes - Page 2

• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Success, Butterfly

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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• The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
  Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Politics, Pluck

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Fear, Regret

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert. Book by Anne Bronte, 1848.

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• There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Butterfly, Night

  "Chanel". Book by Jean Leymarie, 1987.

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• Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

  Lewis Carroll

  Important, Said, Temper

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.48, Penguin

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• Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Gossip, Secret

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Butterfly, Suits You, Speak

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Garden, Thinking

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• 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

  Robert Wyatt

  Butterfly, Thinking, Littles

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• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Dream, Wisdom

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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• I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

  Harry Turtledove

  Butterfly, Social, Social Butterfly

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• Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. You will no longer have to pretend to be someone you're not. You will no longer have to prove you're good enough. When you embrace your shadow you will no longer have to life in fear. Find the gifts of your shadow and you will finally revel in all the glory of your true self. Then you will have the freedom to create the life you have always desired.

  Debbie Ford

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Self

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• Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Moving, Mouths

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  William Blake

  Atheist, Eggs, Joy

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
  because even today I still arrive.
  Look at me: I arrive in every second
  to be a bud on a spring branch,
  to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile,
  learning to sing in my new nest,
  to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
  to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spring, Flower, Learning

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• The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Flower, Science

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”

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• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Butterfly, Thinking

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Tree, Criticism, Together

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• The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

  Lewis Carroll

  Silence, Mouths, Lasts

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.26, Jeff Koo

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• Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Church, Pillars, Members

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• Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Father, Butterfly, Thinking

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• A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Protect And Serve, Heaven

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

  Lynn Margulis

  Butterfly, Looks, Knows

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