Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

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

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

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.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

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

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

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

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 boy.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

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

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

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. The keeping of bees, for instance.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

The revery alone will do If bees are few.