I Wish I Were A Butterfly Quotes

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

Georges St-Pierre

#2. See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.

Mary Alice Monroe

#3. Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

Patrick Monahan

#4. I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#5. Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

Mario Quintana

#6. Forgetting ... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself ... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#7. The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

Joaquin Miller

#8. I felt him move and turned my head to deflect his kiss so that it landed on the side of my jaw instead of my mouth. It shimmered there briefly like some iridescent, impossible butterfly.

Alexis Hall

#9. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#10. I have butterflies in my stomach.

Zane

#11. Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS!

John Green

#12. I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

Caspar David Friedrich

#13. Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.

Laura Miller

#14. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Paul Saffo

#15. Had a memory that he himself had once compared to the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, in that it was colorful, flitted prettily hither and thither, and was

Douglas Adams

#16. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

Frederick Lenz

#17. A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain ...

Winfield Townley Scott

#18. Dose who love deep never grow old ... Dey may die of age, but dey die young.

Arthur Wing Pinero

#19. How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

Kiyoshi Takayama

#20. Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.

Miklos Laszlo

#21. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Guillermo Del Toro

#22. Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

Annie Besant

#23. In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

Emily Dickinson

#24. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

Stefan Emunds

#25. There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

Coco Chanel

#26. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev

#27. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#28. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul

Mahmoud Darwish

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

Cornelia Funke

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

Gunter Grass