Butterfly Quotes - Page 14

• In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Funny Inspirational, Diversity

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

  'No!'

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• In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Lovely, Way

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• ... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Nature, Writing, Science

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• With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

  Ryokan Taigu

  Buddhist, Flower, Mind

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• It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

  Francisco Lopez

  Golf, Flying, Formation

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• Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

  Taryne Mowatt

  Inspirational, Softball, Juice

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• Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.

  Marcus O'Sullivan

  Sports, Running, Hate

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• The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

  Joel Sartore

  Nature, Flower, Typical

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• God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

  Rick Warren

  I Hate You, Anxiety, Coal

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• The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Differences, Novices, Scared

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• It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

  Gunter Grass

  Watches, Dangerous, Staggering

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• World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

  Nelly Sachs

  Children, Taken, Fire

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• It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Keys, Overcoming Fear, Stomach

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Eye, Break Through

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• On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.

  Heather O'Neill

  Writing, Men, Order

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• Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

  James Gleick

  New York, Air, Weather

  Chaos prologue (1987)

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• I still get butterflies when England are playing.

  Alan Shearer

  England, Stills, I Get Butterflies

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• Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
  I’m in love with the one that got away.

  Laura Miller

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• It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

  Laura Miller

  Flying, Feelings, Mind

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• My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

  DeeDee Trotter

  Home, Warrior, Facts

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• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, May, Deer

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• It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

  George Vaillant

  Liars, Littles, Common

  George E. Vaillant (1977). “Adaptation to Life”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Life Changing, Struggle, Successful

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• The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Wings, Flying, Dying

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