Bees Quotes

• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Years, Bees And Honey

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• The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

  Mark Nepo

  Life, Positive, Success

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.165, Conari Press

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• You never can tell with bees.

  A. A. Milne

  Night Time, Cute Winnie The Pooh, Winni The Pooh

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.18, Egmont UK

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Animal, Honey Bee, Labor

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Butterfly

  'No!'

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

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Honey, Pounds, Enough

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

  Alton Brown

  Hands, Honey, Sophisticated

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

  Slash Coleman

  Heart, Love Is, Pollen

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

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Passion, Names, Flames

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1892). “Poems”

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• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Beauty, Dream

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• Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, People, Secret

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.148, Penguin

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• The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Bees And Honey, Sunbeams

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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

  Order, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms

  'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Flower, Smell

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• Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

  John Keats

  Spring, Flower, Poison

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.41

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• Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
  Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
  As fair as ever and as fit to use;
  So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

  George Herbert

  Running, Flower, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121

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• 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.

  Ernie Pyle

  Two, Would Be, Literature

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Heritage, Firsts, Wasps

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Flower, Uninvited Guests

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• It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

  Peter Fonda

  Simple, Old Things, Age

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

  Harold MacMillan

  Roles, Dinosaurs, Britain

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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