Caterpillar Quotes

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)
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. View quote
George Carlin
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. View quote
Richard Bach
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. View quote
Ken Follett
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth. View quote
Lewis Carroll
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. View quote
William Blake
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. View quote
Anne Brontë
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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night. (Coco Chanel)
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. View quote
André Gide
Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar? View quote
Cornelia Funke
Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can. View quote
Douglas R Oberhelman
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. View quote
Robert Wyatt
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Truth is the precious harvest of the earth. But once, when harvest waved upon a land, The noisome cankerworm and caterpillar, Locusts, and all the swarming foul-born broods, Fastened upon it with swift, greedy jaws, And turned the harvest into pestilence, Until men said, What profits it to sow? View quote
George Eliot
Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. (Anthony de Mello)
And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call. Call Alice When she was just small. View quote
Grace Slick
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. View quote
Lynn Margulis
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said,Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. View quote
Shel Silverstein