Caterpillars

Caterpillars in your stomach? Here are some proverbs and quotes about caterpillars.

Caterpillar
Hairy caterpillar.


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Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.

Even caterpillars can fly if they would just lighten up.

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

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.
Charles Darwin

If caterpillars were meant to fly, God would have given them wings.

If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll
Source: Alice in Wonderland

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Millar

The butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Two caterpillars are conversing and a beautiful butterfly floats by. One caterpillar turns and says to the other: 'You'll never see me flying like one of those butterflies.'

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.




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