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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. -- Charles Darwin
Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar. -- Lewis Carroll
Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up. -- Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly. -- Mark Jackson
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. -- John Marsden
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly -- Andre Gide
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. -- George Carlin
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. -- Richard Bach
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. -- William Shakespeare
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly. -- Jesse Taylor
Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. -- Stephanie Pace Marshall
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out. -- Grenville Kleiser
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. -- Rick Warren
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. -- William Blake
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 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
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
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
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
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 I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse. -- Bob Dylan
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 captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night -- Coco Chanel
Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future; Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings... and butterflies don't waste time crying over the legs they lost or dwelling on on the ground. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation. -- Terence McKenna
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars -- Timothy Leary
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars? -- Groucho Marx
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. -- Haruki Murakami
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. -- Cornelia Funke
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
Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy -- James Patterson
These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation. -- Bathsua Makin
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. -- George E. Vaillant
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. -- George E. Vaillant
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts! -- Phyllis Bottome
We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image. -- Louise Hart
When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings. -- Dean Jackson

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