Bees Quotes - Page 2

• The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Food, Animal

  "The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

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• I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

  Wally Schirra

  War, Hero, Hunting

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

  Gene Robinson

  Confused, Home, Range

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• Every saint has a bee in his halo.

  E. V. Lucas

  Halos, Saint, Bees And Honey

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• The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Flower, Men, Garden

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• The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
  To join her comrades in the braided hive,
  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,
  They dream their polity shall long survive.
  Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive
  The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist.
  For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Summer, Dream, Night

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• If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

  Chanakya

  Elephants, Lakes, Lust

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• Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Sleep, Winter, Forget

  1926 The Land,'Spring'.

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• Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

  Cole Porter

  Love, Fall, Bird

  "Let's Do It" (song) (1954). These words were added to the original 1928 song, replacing lines including "Chinks do it, Japs do it" because Porter realized that those lyrics were offensive.

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• To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.

  Chip Taylor

  Sweet, Flower, White

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• People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.

  Karl Pilkington

  Believe, Writing, People

  "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Attachment, Doe

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• The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Honey, Poor Richard

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.255

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• Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Philosophy, Men, Animal

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• It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Peculiar, Goes On, World

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 04, 2013

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• You gotta imagine what's never been.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Imagine, Secret Life

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.121, Penguin

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

  Emily Dickinson

  Pollination, Clovers, Prairie

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

  Jean Cocteau

  Glasses, Mirrors, Advice

  Quoted by Ned Rorem on "The Dick Cavett Show" at PBS, October 06, 1981.

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tragedy, Literature, Annoying

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
  From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Healing, Dew

  Alexander Pope (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.17

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• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

  Jon Crosby

  Trust No One, Way, Don't Trust

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• Here come the hum the golden bees
  Underneath full blossomed trees,
  At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

  James Russell Lowell

  Flower, Glowing, Tree

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.7

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

  Michael Jackson

  Brilliant, Great Music, Bee Gees

  "Michael Jackson, the King of Pop" by Jel D. Lewis Jones, 2005.

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• When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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