Top 337 Butterflies Quotes & Sayings

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Of course you get butterflies as a manager.

Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

The butterflies will be jangling.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

I have butterflies in my stomach.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

There weren't butterflies in my stomach, there were fire breathing dragons.

When the butterflies in my stomach, when those leave, then I know it's probably time to retire.

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.

I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

You get butterflies when you see all the fans screaming.

The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

My life is not, you know, all rainbows and butterflies.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

I've got butterflies in my stomach... because I ate a cocoon quesadilla!

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I want to chase the butterflies.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.