Caterpillars Quotes

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
― George Carlin

“When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.”
― Patch Adams

“Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful.
And if not the butterflies– and the caterpillars– who will call upon me? You will be far away. . . as for the large animals– I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws.”
And, navely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:
“Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!”
For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower. . .”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is supposed that power corrupts," the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "Yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.”
― Frank Beddor, ArchEnemy

“I think that positivity— real positivity— is like the butterflies. The whole essence of the butterfly: caterpillar, cocoon, winged creature. When I look at a butterfly, I not only see a winged beauty, but I also see a strong beauty! A mind that decided: "I'm going to become better, I'm not going to be afraid of the dark, I'm going to roll myself up in this thing that I am and I will come out winged and colourful." A butterfly can never become a butterfly unless the caterpillar realises that it needs to become one. This, to me, is true positivity. I don't like what others do— the way they paint on colours and tape on wings. I like what the caterpillars do. They truly BECOME.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.”
― Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

“Many caterpillars defend themselves not by striking fear in the hearts of their predators, but rather indifference. The large maple spanworm looks like a twig; the viceroy caterpillar looks like a bird dropping. This is not as exciting as looking like an anaconda, but when you are very small, and wingless, one of your main goals in life is to not be exciting. And speaking of unexciting—I think it is safe to say that woolly bears have one of the least advanced defense mechanisms among insects, although theirs is the reaction with which I most strongly identify: when distressed, the woolly bear rolls up into a ball.”
― Amy Leach, Things That Are

“Szpindel’s eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky

“The caterpillars are coming. They’re coming. As they passed a blunt rolled with marijuana shake around the bonfire, filled plastic cups with beer from a keg in the back of John Anderson’s Bronco, snuck cigarettes at the red doors that led to the make-out woods behind school. As they waited on line at the cafeteria for pizza and Tater Tots, warmed up during choral practice, and changed for gym in the locker room. Until Maddie felt something titanic rushing toward the island, gathering steam like a nor’easter barreling toward shore, and the waiting filled with a tingling urgency she knew they all felt. She felt it. Car engines revved harder, highs soared higher, buzzes and crushes burned brighter. “Look.” She lifted her palm as the insect inched across. The two lines of blue and red dots on its back glimmered like spots of blood rising after a pinprick. “They’re here.”
― Julia Fierro, The Gypsy Moth Summer

“When we learn to love the holes in the leaves and the caterpillars that create them, we will truly be a civilisation in metamorphosis.”
― Jane C Frost

“Acid Slime! This Kind of Slime Thrives on Bones. Horns, and Other Hard-to-Digest Meat by-Products. Then There's Scavenger Slime. They Devour Excrement and Garbage. There' also Cleaner Slime.and Secrete A Deodorant Solution that bith Cleanses and Neutralizes Odors. I've got Poison Slime too. Though the Number of Survivors was few. They Were Quicker to Split And Multiply Than Other Kinds of Slime. And Last but not Least... ...Due to The Surprise Monster Run-in Before. I Didn't Get A Chance to Rustle up Some More... Yikes! Not Many Green Caterpillars Left. It Was This Kind of Slime Whose Evolution I First Witnessed. I Find A Lot of These Green Caterpillars While I'M out Hunting, So I Feed Them To The Sticky Slimes.”
― Ranran, By the Grace of the Gods (Manga), Vol. 1