Quotes About Turning Into A Butterfly

#1. 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

#2. To get girls he had figured out that all you had to do was talk little, the bare minimum, and listen much, without ever passing judgment. [Mister Gregory]

Sveva Casati Modignani

#3. It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

Christopher Dawson

#4. True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Marcel Duchamp said, "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists." This is actually a pretty good method for studying - if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you'll choke.

Austin Kleon

#6. It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

Michael Newdow

#7. He studied me, and I hoped to God I had my game face on.

Renita Pizzitola

#8. By the time your offspring have reached four and five it is far too late to be looking for schools: demand for private education is so high that children must be put down for admission not at birth but in utero, ideally before their first cells have divided.

Stephen Fry

#9. I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.

Joni Mitchell

#10. The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

Arthur Herzog

#11. As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.

Anton Du Beke

#12. I'm turning you into a girl
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#13. while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.

Lee Strobel

#14. The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

Marya Mannes

#15. ... for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

Herman Melville

#16. I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style of movies that make fun of movies. I think it needs to be done. All of these movies are ripe for being poked at.

Ashley Tisdale

#17. Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him.

Phyllis Diller

#18. Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

J. Michael Straczynski