Bees Quotes - Page 21

• Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Kissing, Tree, Singing

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.16, University of Illinois Press

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Trying, Variation

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Honey, Sage

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• just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

  Douglas Coupland

  Flying, Attention, Way

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Flower, Staring

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.15, Penguin

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• Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Literature, Idiot

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• Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandmother, Hair, Black

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• I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

  Robin Gibb

  Tragedy, Kind, Sometimes

  "Report: Robin Gibb was making 'bucket list' before falling into coma" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mean, Frustrated, Honey

  "The Liberation of B." by Will Blythe, www.elle.com. December 4, 2008.

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• The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Children, Glasses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

  Lewis Thomas

  Party, Dna, Sea

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Fall, Winning, Starting Over

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• The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

  Cathleen Schine

  Sweet, Morning, Wild Roses

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• The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pain, Struggle, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Poison, Defense

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• I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Long, Yards

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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• Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions.

  Dana Gould

  Competition, Mammals, Beard

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• Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

  Banksy

  Summer, Morning, Stress

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• I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

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

  Bram Stoker

  Escaping, Naked, Fit

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.88, Zillmann Publishing

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• That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

  Obert Skye

  School, Responsibility, Black

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• 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.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Lost Everything, Stills

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.158, Delacorte Press

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• Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dog, Cat, Should Have

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Flower, Butterfly, Writing

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