Bees Quotes
437 quotes by 350 authors
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When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than…
— Patti Smith
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I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
— Emma Stone
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I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I…
— Alison Sweeney
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We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me…
— Lewis Thomas
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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next…
— Lewis Thomas
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know.…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible…
— Cathleen Schine
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The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come…
— Pablo Neruda
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
— Mark Twain
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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
— Jack Kerouac
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I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!
— Shel Silverstein
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Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet…
— Antonio Machado
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When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
— Joe Strummer
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
— Zora Neale Hurston
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
— Douglas Coupland
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Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long…
— Banksy
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