Top 100 Quotes About A Caterpillar
#1. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Cornelia Funke
#2. Anything green is not a part of my diet. I'm a man not a caterpillar.
-Caeden Williams
Micalea Smeltzer
#3. 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
#4. Like a caterpillar, when you feel that your time is over, you may reach infinite light with infinite joy.
Debasish Mridha
#5. 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
#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. What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation,
God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning
#8. If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
Zane Stumpo
#9. All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.
Jim Rohn
#11. I think of it like a caterpillar
a wrinkly, ugly worm with traces of dull colors on it. But when the worm metamorphoses, it becomes something truly beautiful. Charli
Sara Walter Ellwood
#12. Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach.
Amy Leach
#13. All books are butterflies, having lived the life of a caterpillar.
Suzanne Brandyn
#14. Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
Lynn Margulis
#15. I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Robert Wyatt
#16. A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#17. The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
Anthony De Mello
#19. When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.
Rita Zahara
#20. She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.
Gayle Forman
#21. Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#22. Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
#23. If only
you could have witnessed how
much I have changed: sit alone
in a disused theatre and feel what
I have felt, see how the world has
transformed me, like the metamorphosis
of a caterpillar.
Kiera Woodhull
#24. Because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly
Gayle Forman
#25. Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
Rory Miller
#26. To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.
Thomm Quackenbush
#27. The mustache doesn't work for you. Looks more like a caterpillar on your face.
Victoria Vane
#28. How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
A.A. Milne
#29. If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
Robert Kagan
#30. Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
Louie Schwartzberg
#31. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#32. One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
Ken Follett
#34. Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Miller
#35. What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Eckhart Tolle
#36. We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.
Bruce H. Lipton
#37. Did you know that a caterpillar has 228 separate and distinct muscles in its head?
Francis Chan
#39. You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings.
Chloe Thurlow
#40. You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.
Charles Darwin
#41. A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger.
Steven Aitchison
#42. We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.
John Assaraf
#43. Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
Sharon Salzberg
#44. Their dark silhouettes numbed the soft part of his brain, like a bee stinging and numbing a caterpillar, then laying eggs on the surface of its body. The bee larvae use the paralyzed caterpillar as a convenient source of food and devour it as soon as they're born.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?
Faraaz Kazi
#46. Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't ( ... ) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
Douglas Coupland
#47. Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it was a butterfly that is becomes a fish.
Soren Kierkegaard
#48. As a caterpillar, having come to the end of one blade of grass, draws itself together and reaches out for the next, so the Self, having come to the end of one life and dispelled all ignorance, gathers in his faculties and reaches out from the old body to a new
Anonymous
#49. Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.
Lucy Christopher
#50. A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing.
Kemi Sogunle
#51. When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.
L.J.Smith
#52. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was, and there was only ever the butterfly.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#53. My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone.
Zhuangzi
#54. Philomena spun a tale about a butterfly that turned back into a caterpillar - saying that the butterfly would rather live in the cocoon for years than fly under the sun for only a few short days.
"Butterflies don't last," said Philomena solemnly.
Anya Allyn
#55. How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Trina Paulus
#56. A caterpillar builds a coffin, a butterfly remembers a cocoon
Pochassic
#57. Trust to Transform. LET GO ... like a Caterpillar that eventually turns into a beautiful Butterfly.
R.v.m.
#58. It's like bein' a caterpillar in a cocoon, that's what it is ... Like somethin' asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like
Harper Lee
#59. 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
#60. Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.
Just like I am now.
Holly Smale
#61. In life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar
Ikechukwu Joseph
#62. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Lao-Tzu
#63. That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
Herman Melville
#64. Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ourselves die to be what we will be. But we cling to what we know.
Ryan Winfield
#65. If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.
Raymond Chandler
#66. Just when the caterpillar thought "I am incapable of moving," it became a butterfly.
Annette Thomas
#67. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley
Peter Whitmer
#68. A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.
Noah Fregger
#69. If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. The caterpillar turns to liquid before turning into a butterfly. Liquid. Thus washing away any speck of his caterpillar self as he lies completely vulnerable to his environment in his chrysalis shell. One good solid gust of wind and the caterpillars boned.
The Hippie
#71. And her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah,
Lewis Carroll
#72. She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
Lewis Carroll
#73. Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation.
Gail Carriger
#74. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
#76. Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.
Fazil Iskander
#77. And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly.
But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
D.H. Lawrence
#78. Don't diss the caterpillar and then sweat it when it starts to turn into a beautiful butterfly.
Jessica N. Watkins
#79. Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
Terry Pratchett
#80. We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown.
Caterpillar From Alice
#82. Does the butterfly lose time in the months it grows from caterpillar to flying beauty? One day, I'm going to want to sleep twelve hours at a stretch and I won't be able to. I'm not losing time. I am going through a metamorphosis.
Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
#83. On every stem, on every leaf, ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#84. As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#85. If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. And I wonder if the caterpillar at the threshold of death ever knew that she would get metamorphosed into a butterfly that she could fly.
Chirag Tulsiani
#87. Glances were exchanged around the table. There were some uneasy winces, a couple of ambivalent shrugs, a few determined nods, and one delighted giggle (but only because Duncan had spotted another funny caterpillar).
Christopher Healy
#88. Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.
Amit Ray
#89. One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.
Eric Carle
#90. I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.
Jamie Hyneman
#91. In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Anton Chekhov
#92. Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
Marian Phair
#93. His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.
Lilith Saintcrow
#94. But even the coldest hate can shift into something warmer if given enough time, just as an ugly caterpillar can turn into a beautiful butterfly.
Morgan Rhodes
#95. When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.
Crystal Woods
#96. Caterpillar sheds it's skin to find a butterfly within.
Donovan
#97. The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. Life is so Changeable as the Caterpillar into a Butterfly and Everyone like to be so Free as a Bird.
Jan Jansen
#99. Here is the amazing thing: the caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the same organism but are receiving and responding to a different organizing signal.
Bruce H. Lipton
#100. I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.
Gene Wilder
