Quotes About Metamorphosis

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

In only 8 to 12 weeks, a newly hatched duckling is transformed into a young adult.

Omigosh—I'm a squash!

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

If you cant look deep inside someone to see the butterfly building within then you deserve to watch the moth transform and fly away

The world is changing

Burn me--you grew some nice-sized eggs over night, now didn't ya?

The Changing.

It was as if the buildings were alive, growing right before their eyes as they got closer.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

If God is not changing you, you have to honestly ask, "Have I ever really converted?" To put it another way, "If your faith isn't changing you, it hasn't saved you." The people who really have the new birth—the people who really have that conversion experience—are changing.

When I came back out five minutes later, even my pet parakeet wouldn't have recognized me. Of course, I didn't have a pet parakeet. But never mind that.

Are you going somewhere?" I said, regarding him timidly. The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable—unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear.

Unlike Kate, this girl had broken from her setting. All that Kate was, she now had. And standing on Kate's shoulders, something more, still growing; blossoming and yet to fruit. All that he was not.

This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

The moment of change is the only poem

His whole personality seemed to change. The handsome, vigorous young man turned into a rat-like creature with furtive eyes looking for a way of escape and finding none…

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Death is not " The End"; it is a Bend to Transcend.

It was a great softening, night and day it continued, a water funeral for the dying winter.

And there is but a step from a she-ass to a woman.

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.