Quotes About A Dragonfly

#1. Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

Joni Mitchell

#2. A dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind.

David Mitchell

#3. Add a pair of wings to a pepper pod, you would make a dragonfly.

Chris Bradford

#4. When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Louie Schwartzberg

#5. When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Jane Goodall

#6. But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

Janet Fitch

#8. If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Simon Barnes

#9. Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. While you lay on your belly I kneaded the hard edges of your flight. You are a fallen angel but still as the angels are; body light as a dragonfly, great gold wings cut across the sun.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. 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

#11. Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.

Carl Sagan

#12. Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.

Lisa Akers

#13. The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.

William Wordsworth

#14. This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

Ziggy Marley

#15. That's how pixies know we're in love," he said as he folded his dragonfly-like wings and wiggled out of his red jacket, wincing as something pulled. "If the girl has glow, she won't say no.

Kim Harrison

#16. The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender ...

Heinrich Heine

#17. I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.

Diana Gabaldon

#18. When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)

Christopher Healy

#19. It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.

Tom Perrotta

#20. Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains.

Kobayashi Issa

#21. Moonrise
settle back with muffins and tea
until the window empties

R. Willmott

#22. The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

Jack Steinberger

#23. She was young and lovely and surprised and dead. She was also blue. Blue as opals, pale blue. Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring - not summer - sky.

Laini Taylor

#24. It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Jimi Hendrix

#25. Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.

Alice Dreger

#26. We were totally high and we had Quiet Riot play at our after-show party at the Dragonfly. I think we reunited them, just like we did W.A.S.P. We take sole responsibility for the return of retro heavy metal, and I'm ashamed. But

Marilyn Manson

#27. She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back. But of course we had. She'd taken me back.

Richard Peck

#28. A Wet Dragonfly Can Fly Again!

Anaka Jones

#29. So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.

John Wooden

#30. The Dragonfly Charm

Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortune

Viola Shipman

#31. Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

Lorine Niedecker

#32. The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't.

Donna Tartt

#33. Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Sergei Lavrov

#34. I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world upside down.

Rosie Pugh

#35. I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it

Mackenzie Foy

#36. I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

Moby

#37. And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

Jenny Han

#38. Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.

Kim Harrison

#39. Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

William Bridges

#40. Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

G.K. Chesterton

#41. If you work with pigs, you're more likely to have your appendix operated on:

Jack Mingo

#42. It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

James McAvoy

#43. The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.

Julia Golding