Butterflies Quotes (page 5)

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• puppy
• running
• butterfly

I did nothing but run away from the time I was a puppy, and I kept on running and roving until one fine morning - a very fine morning, with the sun in my eyes - I fell over the world's edge chasing a butterfly. J. R. R. Tolkien

• star
• butterfly
• harm

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star. Madeleine L'Engle

• white
• hope
• gift

The Cabbage White The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight, Yet has- who knows so well as I?- A just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and here by guess And God and hope and hopelessness. Even the acrobatic swift Has not his flying-crooked gift. Robert Graves

• dream
• butterfly
• romantic

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real. Jennifer Love Hewitt

• flower
• butterfly
• clouds

Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds. George MacDonald

• betrayal
• butterfly
• dream

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. Alice Hoffman

• small
• she
• butterfly

Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away. Kurt Vonnegut

• passion
• snow
• understanding

Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions. Tristan Tzara

• butterfly
• earth
• touching

We’ll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas Irving Layton

• butterfly
• willing
• laughs

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies. William Shakespeare

• dance
• night
• butterfly

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. Roberto Bolano

• achievement
• beauty
• change

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou

• little girl
• girls
• butterfly

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse, Robert A. Heinlein

• butterfly
• old
• laugh

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. William Shakespeare

• snow
• respect
• eyes

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The... Victor Hugo