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  • Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar. -- Lewis Carroll
  • The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly -- Timothy Leary
  • The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, -- Lewis Carroll
  • I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast. -- Jamie Hyneman
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillarâ? story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future -- Eric Carle
  • Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar. -- Lewis Carroll
  • Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there. -- Douglas R. Oberhelman
  • You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s. -- Noam Chomsky
  • What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. -- Richard Bach
  • Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. -- Lynn Margulis
  • There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • 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
  • Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. -- Louie Schwartzberg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • 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. -- Douglas R. Oberhelman
  • Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar? -- Cornelia Funke
  • I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly -- Harry Turtledove
  • You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly. -- Mark Jackson
  • It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly. -- John Harricharan
  • A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly -- Andre Gide
  • A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow. -- Kaiylah Muhammad
  • The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. -- George Carlin
  • One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. -- Kendrick Lamar
  • If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound. -- Robert Kagan
  • Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly. -- Jesse Taylor
  • Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it. -- Lucy Christopher
  • The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. -- Anthony de Mello
  • Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. -- Cornelia Funke
  • The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. -- Guillermo del Toro
  • As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character. -- Lorna Jackie Wilson
  • All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky. -- Jim Rohn
  • A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. -- Mandy Hale
  • If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you. -- Tama J. Kieves
  • Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. -- Nhat Hanh
  • In my caterpillar experience, a man's weakness always lies in their past, where all their dirty laundry is buried," he sighs cheeringly. -- Cameron Jace
  • As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. -- William Blake
  • Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts -- Rory Miller
  • As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge? -- Lorna Jackie Wilson
  • One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. -- Eric Carle
  • We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable. -- John Assaraf
  • Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion. -- Amit Ray
  • Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, -- Shel Silverstein
  • 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
  • In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. -- Anton Chekhov
  • Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead. -- Lilith Saintcrow
  • I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. -- Theodore Roethke
  • The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the rest of the world calls butterfly. Richard BachFrom Gifts of the Unknown: Using Extraordinary Experiences to Cope W/ Loss & Change -- Louis E. Lagrand
  • If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly? -- Miley Cyrus
  • My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone. -- Zhuangzi
  • The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination. -- Humphry Davy
  • Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation. -- Gail Carriger
  • 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. -- Ken Follett
  • When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar. -- Rita Zahara
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