Butterfly Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

Bee, Sting, Float

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

End, Master, Calls

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

Ignorance, End, Belief

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Enough, Moments

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Made, Talent

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, May, Down

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

Beautiful, Start, Everyone

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi

Whether, Dreaming

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Zhuangzi

Around, Sky, Wonder

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

Become, Ugly, Himself

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
Max Muller

Makes, Sin, Dust

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Alma Gluck

Artist, Bird, Natural

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
Robert Plant

Time, End, Around

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Touch, Finger, Wing

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova

Success, Happiness, Thought

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad

Keep, Dirt, Mud

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
Adam Carolla

Same, Said, Around

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Jeffrey Kluger

Less, Likely, Dislike

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.
Serena Williams

Different, Away, Call

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Imogene Coca

Try, Trouble, Satire

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
Anthony Kiedis

Rock, Hill, Julia

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

Working, Become, Singer

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.
Hope Solo

Alone, Person, Social

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
Kate Bosworth

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.
Andre Rieu

Together, Wanted, Might

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
Tracy Morgan

Beautiful, Angry, Black

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
Lynn Margulis

Everybody, Knows

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
Pia Zadora

Success, Reason, Wanted

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