Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

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

I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

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

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 I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

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.

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. We also are apart of nature, certainly not separate from nature.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.

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

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy

Like people love their tote, they love their initial bangle, they love their C. Wonder belts, they love their cardigans and their striped top, and I'm really happy to be bringing that back and helping people get their 'Bee Happy' smoking slippers again.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

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

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

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees or something. Then when I saw the fat kid with the watch who was timing you start laughing…. Well, I’ll just say it’s never a good sign when a fat kid laughs at you.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.