Caterpillars Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Butterfly, Cutting, Soul

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• Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Humor

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

  Lisi Harrison

  Life, Second Chance, Creating

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Thinking, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

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• If you look at Caterpillar now [in Japan] with what's going on. [Shinzō] Abe is a great leader. Who is our chief negotiator? Essentially it is Caroline Kennedy. I mean give me a break. She doesn't even know she's alive. It's Caroline Kennedy. So Caterpillar is having a hard time selling because Komatsu is under-cutting them.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Cutting, Hard Times

  Source: www.economist.com

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• There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Ecosystems, Robins

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• The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce, the first place he went was Caterpillar. I don't think he's forgotten, and the labor movement didn't react. Even radical labor historians didn't remember. It was only 15 years ago, after all, but that's a real triumph of propaganda in many ways.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.iww.org

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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Death, Garden, Heaven

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Magic, Sometimes

  Source: www.iww.org

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• 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.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Joy

  Cynthia Ozick (1991). “The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories”, E P Dutton

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Jobs, New Job, Want

  "Caterpillar CEO: Higher taxes do not stimulate anything". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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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, Butterfly

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

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• We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.

  John Assaraf

  Butterfly, Doe, Becoming

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?

  Miley Cyrus

  Smart, Butterfly, Animal

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eyebrows, Pieces, Care

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.22, Random House

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• Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Butterfly, Adults

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “The Thief Lord”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

  Cornelia Funke

  Butterfly, Doe, Asks

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• It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

  Annie Dillard

  Hate, Fire, Vases

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

  Mark Jackson

  Butterfly, Rave

  "Shocking! Former Warriors Coach Mark Jackson Chooses James Harden Over Steph Curry For MVP" by Jack Winter, uproxx.com. April 2, 2015.

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• His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Climbing, Eyebrows, Together

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• Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.6486, e-artnow

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• I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

  Theodore Roethke

  Nature, Bats, Toads

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.219, Anchor

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• You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Butterfly, Years

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.621, VM eBooks

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