Quotes About Metamorphosis

Okay," I say at last. "But you have to teach me how to do animals. I can't keep myself from wilting when I'm a plant, so I've been afraid to try a living form." She laughs and shifts into the shape of a large golden retriever and almost licks me to death before I can make her stop.

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone.

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

In time and with water, everything changes.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.

People change all the time whether you like it or not.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

as though I had been flat water and now I was carbonated.

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?

There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!

how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.

Lajos had said that every 7 years a human being is completely changed, and Hella thinks that is perfectly true. Thank goodness, in 6 1/2 months I shall change my whole being too.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

My last sunrise,' said the vampire. 'That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Sometimes people live first one life and then another life," her grandmother said. "First a family life and then later a whole other kind of life. That's what I'm doing.