When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its… — Martial Copy Share Image
The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When "Here Comes the Sun" started, what happened? No, the sun didn't come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out… — Plato Copy Share Image
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were. Along with her manners, the… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
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