Butterfly In My Hand Quotes

#1. Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

Charles Gounod

#2. Hello, I said softly, one hand over the butterfly wings that beat inside me.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

Theodore Parker

#4. A child her wayward pencil drew
On margins of her book;
Garlands of flower, dancing elves,
Bud, butterfly, and brook,
Lessons undone, and plum forgot,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art.

Louisa May Alcott

#5. Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.

Ruskin Bond

#6. Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.

Mary Jo Putney

#7. You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.

Pippa DaCosta

#8. It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

Ann Patchett

#9. That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.

Conrad Wesselhoeft

#10. Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

Rainbow Rowell