Larva Quotes

#1. A metamorphosis ... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

A.S. Byatt

#2. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ... We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Diane Ackerman

#3. Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Victor Hugo

#5. The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,
its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.

Humphry Davy

#6. The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.

Osamu Tezuka

#8. He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching.

Adam Haslett

#9. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it."
Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?"
Orion: "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Eoin Colfer

#11. Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can't be used as a totem or fetish in that way.

Terry Eagleton

#12. Bauer was a large, flat-topped man, with pale skin that had been acned and pitted so that it resembled a cob cleaned of corn, eyes the color of snuff, and the general expression of a natural-born straw boss.

Daniel Woodrell

#13. Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Bill Nye

#14. It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

Paul Giamatti

#15. Set your dreams where nobody hides, give your tears to the tide ...

M83

#16. The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

Leopold Kronecker

#17. Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.

Faris Badwan

#18. I'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual.

Charlie Sheen

#19. Do not chafe at your bonds, dear.
It is only my heart that holds you;
That is easily broken.

Muna Lee

#20. As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Sam Brownback