Butterfly Quotes - Page 23

• Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Hurt, Children

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Dream, Real, Giving

  "The Day I Shot Cupid". Book by Jennifer Love Hewitt, www.today.com. 2010.

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mom, Teenager, Years

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Girl, Summer, Together

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• Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Childhood, Way, Mathematician

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.

  David Attenborough

  Atheist, Believe, Eye

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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, Self, Shadow

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• Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sight, Punctuation Marks, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 18, 2015

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• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Horse, War, Eye

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• Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

  Tristan Tzara

  Buddhist, Passion, Skulls

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• As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

  Stephen Hawking

  New York, Rain, Mean

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• But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

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• Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Mind, World

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.46, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• 17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Dust, Years, Wind

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• Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

  Greg Behrendt

  Giving, Feelings, Lust

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.143, Harmony

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• I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

  Og Mandino

  Flower, Firefly, Wings

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.72, Bantam

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Deny, Mankind

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

  Cornelia Funke

  Doe, Caterpillars, Asks

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• The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Heart, Sight

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• What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies

  Charles Bukowski

  Dollars, Cost, Raises

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.221, Canongate Books

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• And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

  Ian Fleming

  Games, Finding Yourself, One Day

  IAN FLEMING (1954). “LIVE AND LET DIE”

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• Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hurt, Animal, Wings

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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• Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

  Matsuo Basho

  Wings, Incense

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.166 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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• With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Order, Wings, Drawing

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