Top 100 Quotes On Caterpillar
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Cornelia Funke
#4. Anything green is not a part of my diet. I'm a man not a caterpillar.
-Caeden Williams
Micalea Smeltzer
#5. 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
#6. The caterpillar takes flight the moment it believes it was born to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
Guillermo Del Toro
#8. Like a caterpillar, when you feel that your time is over, you may reach infinite light with infinite joy.
Debasish Mridha
#9. In life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar
Ikechukwu Joseph
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future
Eric Carle
#14. If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.
Tama J. Kieves
#15. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Lao-Tzu
#16. If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
Zane Stumpo
#17. All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.
Jim Rohn
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like
Lewis Carroll
#22. 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
#24. 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
#25. It is written" And I will restore to you the years the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I send among you." I stand on the word of God and I boldly decree that my restoration has started now! Anointing
Olusegun Festus Remilekun
#26. If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.
Raymond Chandler
#27. All books are butterflies, having lived the life of a caterpillar.
Suzanne Brandyn
#28. Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
Lynn Margulis
#29. 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
#30. A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#31. The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
Anthony De Mello
#32. Just when the caterpillar thought "I am incapable of moving," it became a butterfly.
Annette Thomas
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.
Noah Fregger
#37. 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
#38. You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.
Mark Jackson
#39. 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
#40. If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. The caterpillar they despise today is the butterfly they praise tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
'Not quite right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; some of the words have got altered.'
'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
Lewis Carroll
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change
Nancy S. Mure
#52. Because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly
Gayle Forman
#53. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
#55. 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
#56. The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
Cynthia Ozick
#57. Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.
Fazil Iskander
#58. 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
#59. Caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.
Mary Alice Monroe
#60. I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me.
Elle Lothlorien
#61. As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
William Blake
#62. Don't diss the caterpillar and then sweat it when it starts to turn into a beautiful butterfly.
Jessica N. Watkins
#63. Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
Cornelia Funke
#64. Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. 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
#66. The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin
#67. The mustache doesn't work for you. Looks more like a caterpillar on your face.
Victoria Vane
#68. 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
#69. The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.
John Harricharan
#70. 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
#72. If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
Robert Kagan
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#76. 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.
#77. As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#78. One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#79. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.
Gordon Korman
#80. 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
#81. The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,
Lewis Carroll
#82. Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
Kendrick Lamar
#83. Around the tenth time reading some of these books to your kids, you begin to develop some really strong opinions and questions about them.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: I'm sure I'm not the only one who is concerned that maybe the main character has an eating disorder. Hey, I identify.
Jim Gaffigan
#84. Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Miller
#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
#90. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.
Thomas Harris
#91. What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. Change is to the caterpillar what the metamorphosis is to the human being. It is the inevitable cycle of life. Without change, there is no life.
Susan Peabody
#93. One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.
Eric Carle
#94. 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
#95. Did you know that a caterpillar has 228 separate and distinct muscles in its head?
Francis Chan
#96. The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
Timothy Leary
#98. The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,
its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.
Humphry Davy
#99. You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings.
Chloe Thurlow
#100. 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
