Thomas Huxley Quotes

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Some age, others mature.

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

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.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

I just understand that life is a constant change and a constant evolution.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

From the egg to the apple.

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.

The nature of life is to grow.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

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?

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.