Bees Quotes · Page 13

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

— Anne Sexton

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

— William Shakespeare

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

— Sue Monk Kidd

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their…

— Anonymous

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

— Gene Robinson

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

— Sue Monk Kidd

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

— Maria Edgeworth

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

— Vita Sackville-West

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for…

— William Butler Yeats

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

— Anonymous

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took…

— Laurie Lee

If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But…

— Ephrem the Syrian

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the…

— Cynthia Lewis

When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even…

— Eddie Vedder

But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only…

— Edward Eager

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of…

— William Shakespeare

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,…

— John Muir

How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not…

— John Keats

I keep bees, I make all my own booze, from cider to beer to elderflower wines and all that, growing our own…

— Bez

A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that…

— Edmond Rostand

“Fairies with gossamer wings, Bring forth beauty, grace and joyful things. Fairies of the earth are caretakers of our soil, water and…

— Molly Friedenfeld

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

— Emily Dickinson

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the…

— Maurice Gibb

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

— James Russell Lowell

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

— William Shakespeare

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a…

— Ray Bradbury

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

— Hortense Calisher

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

— Penelope Gilliatt

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

— George Eliot

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

— Carl Sandburg

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try…

— Robert Genn