Bees Quotes - Page 19

• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  Want Something, People, Energy

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• In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

  Grant Morrison

  Struggle, Angel, Warrior

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.48, Random House

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• When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

  John Vianney

  Flower, Sacrifice, Soul

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• If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Rain, Lakes, Rocks

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  Three, Vagabonds, Way

  Sir Thomas Browne (1968). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence”

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• Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

  Sara Sheridan

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

  John Lennon

  Things In Life, Bird, Want

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• On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.

  Natasha Richardson

  Hurt, Pain, Father

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• If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Wise, Reading, Flower

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• Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Exercise, Data

  Source: libcom.org

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• Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

  B. C. Forbes

  Flower, Science, Self

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• No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Crazy, Home

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• Can you imagine if you had a pair of shoes that you could only walk in? That could be kind of limiting under certain circumstances. 'Everybody get outta here! There's a swarm of bees coming!' What? Oh great, I got my walking shoes on today. I guess I better stroll the hell out of here at a moderate pace.

  Arj Barker

  Shoes, Pace, Today

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• I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

  Joyce Giraud

  Reactions

  "Siberia – Joyce Giraud Exclusive Interview". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.showbizjunkies.com. July 06, 2013.

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• Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

  John Keats

  Flower, Knowledge, Eye

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, School, Reason

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• I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Mind, Honey

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• We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

  Mark Twain

  Oysters, Ants, Study

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

  Henry Adams

  Memories, Men, Skills

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Men, Speak

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• Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

  Eddie Izzard

  Mean, Thinking, Honey

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

  Josh Billings

  Fighting, Rumor

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• You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.

  Dov Davidoff

  Girl, Home, People

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• When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

  Dean Koontz

  Flower, Hands, Expectations

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