327 Quotes About Butterfly

  • Author Charles Darwin
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    Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

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  • Author Charles Dickens
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    Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

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  • Author David Dill
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    The main application of psychology is usability. A huge problem with voting technology has been voter errors and confusion. Many of the problems of Florida in the 2000 election, including the butterfly ballot, are usability problems. Those problems aren't unique to Florida. They happen in every election with every type of equipment.

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  • Author Helen Dixon
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    Jenna was just looking for regional qualifying times. She's concentrating on the 50-yard freestyle this season. The 100-yard butterfly isn't an event she wants to do at states.

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  • Author Novak Djokovic
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    It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

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  • Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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    I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

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  • Author Steven Erikson
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    And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

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  • Author T. S. Eliot
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    If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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