Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting hummingbirds and sapphire dragonflies. The sun-warmed sweet haze of the blossoms filled the air. "When I was a kid," said Isabel, "I used to capture butterflies, but I was afraid of the bees. I'm getting over that, though." The bees softly rose and hovered over the flowers, their steady hum oddly soothing. The quiet buzzing was the soundtrack of her girlhood summers. Even now, she could close her eyes and remember her walks with Bubbie, and how they would net a monarch or swallowtail butterfly, studying the creature in a big clear jar before setting it free again. They always set them free. As she watched the activity in the hedge, a memory floated up from the past- Bubbie, gently explaining to Isabel why they needed to open the jar. "No creature should ever be trapped against its will," she used to say. "It will ruin itself, just trying to escape." As a survivor of a concentration camp, Bubbie only ever spoke of the experience in the most oblique of terms.

Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.

To make yourself beautiful you oiled your body with honey, enchanting the bees.

Včelaření není pro hlupáky, to se ukáže hodně brzy.

Unrealistic? I think not, that bee was about to murder me.

Včelaření se líbí lidem intelektuálně nadaným, manuálně zručným i umělecky talentovaným.

When a bee stings you it is preserving its life, not its honey.

We are bees then; our honey is language.

You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.

Without bees, the world would be a mess.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.

A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

bees dig the plum blossoms

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Bee stings are very educational

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.