Bees Quotes · Page 10

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

— Jonathan Haidt

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move…

— Gautama Buddha

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

— John Muir

I really like Charlotte Tilbury and Burt's Bees lipsticks - so moisturising!

— Holly Willoughby

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

— Joe Strummer

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

— Francis Bacon

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

— Joyce Giraud

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of…

— Thomas Hood

I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna…

— Annie E. Clark

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think,…

— Kiki Smith

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the…

— Leigh Hunt

And pray, who are you?" Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of…

— John B. Tabb

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they…

— Brenda Lee

Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee…

— B. C. Forbes

Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye…

— William C. Bryant

Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine…

— William Butler Yeats

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty…

— Thomas Jefferson

Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me,…

— Patricia Polacco

It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to…

— Katherine Center

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it…

— Ramakrishna

Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

— John Madden

“Non apibus dubitandem est. (You never can tell with bees.) ~ Winnie ille Pu”

— A.A. Milne

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

— Sue Hubbell

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

— Jean Cocteau

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

— Sue Monk Kidd

My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.

— Corey Stoll

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

— Martial

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

— Hannah Nordhaus

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

— Karl von Frisch

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

— Saint Francis de Sales

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

— Tom Waits

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will…

— Emily Dickinson

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I…

— Bob Hope

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

— Meridel Le Sueur

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

— Hermann Bondi