Butterfly Quotes - Page 14

• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

  Bertrand Russell

  Age, Nero, Earth

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.459, Psychology Press

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• Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

  Milan Kundera

  Wind, Ridiculous, Illusion

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• Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

  Romare Bearden

  Happiness, Time, Art

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• People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

  Russell Brand

  Animal, Wings, People

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• Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

  Elton John

  Sweet, Bye, Ears

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Science, Elephants

  George Gamow (1970). “A Star Called the Sun”

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• After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

  Karel Capek

  Flower, Dark, Garden

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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

  Mark Jackson

  Rave, Caterpillars

  "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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• Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Garden, Tree

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.10

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• One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.

  Marge Piercy

  Stars, Rocks, Giving

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• Now I’m floating like a butterfly
  Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
  I went from zero, to my own hero

  Katy Perry

  Zero, Hero, Stripes

  Song: Roar

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• As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Character, Adversity, People

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• One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Forever, Able, Study

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• To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

  Laini Taylor

  Stupid, Generations, Cocoons

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• Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Men, Snakes

  Title of poem (1923)

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• It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

  John Harricharan

  Caterpillars

  John Harricharan (1993). “Morning Has Been All Night Coming”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had butterflies. You know, the Obamas were sitting out there, the Supreme Court, Maya Angelou, and Desmond Tutu for God's sake, all in the front row.

  Dick Van Dyke

  President, First Time, Supreme Court

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• I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

  Nicole Kidman

  Cockroaches, Body, Planes

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 24, 2016

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• She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

  Edith Wharton

  Kissing, Arms, Beats

  Edith Wharton, Barbara Anne White (1995). “Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome”, p.152, UPNE

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• Thus every dog at last will have his day -
  He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
  The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.

  John Wolcot

  Dog, Morning, Night

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• Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Mean, Fading

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

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• A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Rhinos, Hopeful

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

  Niecy Nash

  Baby, Eyelashes, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.

  Daniel Tosh

  Love You, Heart, Sweat

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