Bees Quotes
437 quotes by 350 authors
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Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
— Slash Coleman
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Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the…
— Kristin Cashore
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When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
— Srikumar Rao
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
— John Lyly
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
— William Shakespeare
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O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for…
— Dan Millman
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and…
— George Santayana
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Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.
— Francis Quarles
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
— Kabir
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like…
— Karel Capek
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
— Teresa of Avila
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will…
— William Butler Yeats
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I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you…
— Kiki Smith
Who Wrote These Bees Quotes
350 authors contributed a total of 437 Bees Quotes, led by these top contributors: