Butterflies Caterpillars Quotes

#1. 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 E. Vaillant

#2. Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.

Marcel Proust

#3. Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.

Sarah Willis

#4. When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

Patch Adams

#5. Small caterpillars still become big butterflies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

Andy Cohen

#7. I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars, if I want to get to know butterflies

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. From rocks come gold.
From coal comes diamonds.
From oysters come pearls.
From caterpillars come butterflies.
From adversity come the great.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Never step on caterpillars, as one day they'll become butterflies, and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on their wings of fortune.

R.P. Falconer

#10. Girls are caterpillars while 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 structure.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#11. Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be on the shaded hemisphere of the globe no sentient being save himself; he could fancy them all gone round to the sunny side.

Thomas Hardy

#12. And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. Respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.

Colleen Hoover

#14. Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Steve Chandler

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

Rick Warren

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

Cornelia Funke

#17. The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees
a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform like caterpillars into butterflies. They become whole new people as if overnight.

Michael J. Sullivan

#18. Ugly caterpillars still turn into beautiful butterflies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#20. Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

#21. The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

George Carlin

#22. Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Bill Cowher

#23. dropping out until become empty

Ahmed

#24. We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

Louise Hart

#25. Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

Stephanie Pace Marshall

#26. 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

#27. I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Walker Percy

#28. We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

John Marsden

#29. Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

Randy Pausch

#30. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery