Quotes About The Dragonfly

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

Lorine Niedecker

#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. Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.

Lisa Akers

#4. 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

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

Kobayashi Issa

#6. 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

#7. The Dragonfly Charm

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

Viola Shipman

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

Chris Bradford

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

Janet Fitch

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

Diana Gabaldon

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

Murray Rothbard

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

R. Willmott

#19. 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

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

Jimi Hendrix

#21. Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Thomas Sprat

#22. 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

#23. Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

Tom Johnson

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Donna Tartt

#30. I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

Ben Howard

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

David Mitchell

#32. A Wet Dragonfly Can Fly Again!

Anaka Jones

#33. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

Maurice Hall