Pollen Quotes

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

— Gerald Durrell

The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.

— Milton Jones

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I have allergies, and I've had my share of nosebleeds, but that's usually related to pollen.

— Stephen Curry

It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart,…

— Anne Sexton

From a young age, I've suffered from hay fever. So my hay fever, unfortunately, is both tree and grass pollen.

— Colin Jackson

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

— Alice Hoffman

I never smoked cigarettes, I never did hard drugs. But I love bee pollen capsules.

— Marky Ramone

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen…

— Walt Disney

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they…

— George Eliot

She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan…

— Laini Taylor

You know, if you want to go out for example, you're always checking and making sure whether the pollen count is super…

— Colin Jackson

The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind…

— Joseph Campbell

In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His…

— M. Russell Ballard

But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their…

— Nahoko Uehashi

I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come…

— Jane Hirshfield

Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is…

— Hope Jahren

Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the…

— Anonymous

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small…

— Ray Bradbury

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in…

— Joan Rivers

He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is…

— Wolfgang Laib

We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says…

— Emma Donoghue

I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her…

— Mary Oliver

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

— Willis Regier

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

— James Russell Lowell

I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the…

— Wolfgang Laib

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

— Christian Konrad Sprengel

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

— Slash Coleman

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds…

— Nina Fedoroff

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally…

— Calvin Trillin

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause…

— Janet Macunovich

I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will…

— Luke Davies

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of…

— Hilda Doolittle

Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be…

— George Iles

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the…

— Beth Orton

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that…

— Pablo Neruda

“When in 1827 the Scottish botanist Robert Brown peered through a microscope at some pollen grains suspended in water, he saw that…

— Manjit Kumar

Pollen counts are generally high early in the mornings 8 to 10 A.M. to noon. So stay away from being outdoors early…

— Mikhail Varshavski