B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.”
“Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.”
“Butterflies and moths
to the flame
--- and we are the flame”
Source: organic
“Butterflies and snow angels
As the sun shines through the grey
Rainbows and snowdrifts”
“Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.”
“Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.”
“Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings can hurt like fucking hell. But still, you will survive the transformation (over and over again) and you will fly. Remember this when it hurts the most. This is the metamorphosis, the going down to liquid, and the rising again. It’s no joke – but damn, it’s one hell of a journey.”
“Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.”
“Butterflies are but petals upon the sky.”
“Butterflies are free
To roam the wild
Happy and innocent
Like a small child
They long to see
A bit of everything
By spreading their wings
To what nature sings”
Source: A Maniac Did
“Butterflies are like angels kisses sent from heaven.”
“Butterflies are like women— we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.”
“Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. It shows us how empowering change can be.”
Source: If I Resist
“Butterflies are not called butterflies overnight.
They have to undergo tons of changes in order to acquire that name.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.”
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
“Butterflies are the most beautiful creatures ever. They should call them beautiflies, don’t you think?”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.”
“Butterflies, as if unaware that darkness is no impediment to love, are playing the primordial game with light.”
“Butterflies better understand than you, the meaning of love and sacrifices one must make for their beloved.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“Butterflies, butterflies
They were meant to fly
You and i, you and i
We were colours in the sky”
“Butterflies can’t see their own wings, so they don’t know how beautiful they are.”
Source: Mercs and Strippers
“Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.”
“Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.”
Source: Edge of the Jungle
“Butterflies. Everyday.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Butterflies fluttered about him, as if they were extracting data.”
Source: Kinnara
“Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.”
Source: Undoing Border Imperialism
“Butterflies have no uses for caterpillar maps.”
Source: The Spiritual Vixen's Guide To An Unapologetic Life
“Butterflies have often been used as a metaphor for freedom. Turning every single hobby into a hustle is akin to walking around with a cyanide-filled jar to kill and pin every butterfly you see. Sometimes it’s better to just enjoy the chaos of your creative flow without trying to capture and catalyze it.”
“Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.”
Source: Roger Tory Peterson's Dozen Birding Hot Spots
“Butterflies taste with their feet, sea turtles breathe through their asses, and no one really understands gravity or love, least of all her.”
Source: Blue Woman Burning: A Novel
“Butterflies that leave traces of my life.”
Source: Poemas a lo largo del camino
“Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.”
Source: Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“Butterflies used to reproduce on the native plants that grew in our yards before the plants were bulldozed and replaced with lawn. To have butterflies in our future, we need to replace those lost host plants, no if’s, and’s or but’s. If we do not, butterfly populations will continue to decline with every new house that is built.”
“Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties.”
Source: Popisho
“Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.”
Source: Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace
“butterflies were wind energy made visible.”
Source: Imperfect Birds: A Novel
“Butterflies would float up from our eyelashes. The
butterflies would turn from white cocoons to purple-winged creatures. The
air would become purple, and all of a sudden, the butterflies would etch their
shadows across the ceiling. They would swarm into my brain and suck out
every memory of us that I have. Then, I would be left with this one moment
of us in this room, replaying itself like a still film frame over and over again.”
Source: The Butterfly Bruises
“Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.”
“Butterfly alights,
whispers to the firefly,
"Night's canvas awaits."
Firefly twinkles,
responds with soft luminescence,
"We'll paint it with light."
Butterfly flutters,
"Your glow guides through the shadows,
our nocturnal flight."
Firefly replies,
"In the darkness, we unite,
Nature's lanterns bright."
Together they dance,
wings and sparks raveling.
A symphony of night.”
“Butterfly and bee,
amidst blossoms, dance with glee.
In nature's symphony.
Butterfly's flutter,
Bee sips from a blossom's heart,
Nature's silent tale.
Petals cradle dreams,
Bee hums, weaving life's stories,
Harmony unveiled.
Delicate wings touch,
Nature whispers resilience,
A nuanced ballet.
In the dance of blooms,
A symphony of co-existence,
Lessons quietly shared.”
“Butterfly causing a tsunami with on beat of its wing.”
Source: Fifteenth Summer
“Butterfly Kisses
Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wisdom
earned by His holy grace.
Quiet solitude in a humble home
all the family scattered now
like nomads do they roam.
Then a gift
sent from above
a memory
pure and tangible
wrapped in innocence and
unquestioning love.
A butterfly kiss
lands gently upon my cheek
from an unseen child
a kiss most sweet.
Heaven grants grace
and tears follow
as youth revisits
this empty hollow.”
Source: Enigmatic Evolution
“Butterfly land on a human just once in life; if you miss that oppurtunity, you have no another chance. Because that butterfly will be dead the next day.”
“Butterfly
There is beauty both inside and outside of the cocoon that pushed you to grow
Through darkness and dysfunction, depth and despair
A vivid light splits through and steals you away
When you get comfortable with your own messy and beautiful self
Nothing and no-one can block you
You finally see your truth
You fall in line with the beat of your own vibration
You come out of your cocoon
A gorgeous butterfly”
Source: The Touch of 10,000 Words: Musings and Poetry: Love, Life, Inner Magic and the Pursuit of Dreams
“Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.”
“Butterfly wings are light. Free they fly, just like all the anxiety that leaves my mind.”
“Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.”
“Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.”
Source: The World According to Martha
“Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen”
Source: A Fire at the Exhibition