Quotes About Lightning Bugs

#1. Emotions flickered in the amber depths, one after another, like lightning bugs winking on and off. Disgust. Anger. Mistrust. Suspicion. Curiosity.

Jennifer Estep

#2. I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#3. The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August skies aflame with stars. The way the desert smells and the long, wistful sigh of wind rushing down from the mountains as the sun dips beneath the horizon.

Rick Yancey

#4. Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.

Reinaldo Arenas

#5. Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.

Suzanne Palmieri

#6. I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Loretta Lynn

#7. I didn't just see fireworks, I felt them. I felt like I'd eaten a million lightning bugs when I was with him. He made my soul brighter, and that's all you can ask for when you're in love.

Viola Shipman

#8. I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

Amy Hempel

#9. If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.

Will Advise

#10. Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you're trying to be sneaky.

Suzie Ivy

#11. Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

George Hickenlooper

#12. If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid.

Q

#13. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

Craig Newmark

#14. The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind;
He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

Eugene Fitch Ware

#15. I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow.

Kellie Elmore

#16. He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

John Locke

#17. It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.

George Allen

#18. Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

Wayne McGregor

#19. There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.

Nicole A. Walker