Bees Quotes - Page 23

• Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Smell

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

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• The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

  Luanne Rice

  Finding Love, Secret, Found

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• Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.

  Wayne Campbell

  Writing, Tunes, Zeppelins

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• Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

  George Carlin

  Whales, Tree, Snail

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

  William Allingham

  Kings, Spring, Yellow

  William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.176

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• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

  John Muir

  Fall, Angel, Sunshine

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• You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Kindness, Generosity, Sugar

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

  John Oliver

  Baseball, War, Believe

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• I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

  Rachael Harris

  Fans, Bigs, Samantha

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• I saw a bee have a heart attack.

  Karl Pilkington

  Heart, Saws, Heart Attack

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• My epiglottis is full of bees!

  Jeremy Clarkson

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Construction, Sweetest

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Sweet, Voice

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 7, l. 203, song (added 1850)

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• Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Flower, Important, Fundamentals

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

  Takeda Shingen

  Dragons, Force

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• The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

  John Updike

  Football, Mother, Morning

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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• O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait. Bring back the singing; and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;- Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summertime!

  William Allingham

  Summer, Running, Stars

  William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.49

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• The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

  Karl von Frisch

  Water, Magic, Life Is Like

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• So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

  Ramakrishna

  Faith, Peace, Flower

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• Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Beautiful, Teacher, Father

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Buzz, Busy

  "Reading I've Liked : A Personal Selection Drawn from Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing, Presented with an Informal Prologue and Various Commentaries". Book by Clifton Fadiman, 1941.

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• I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

  Rosanne Cash

  Real, Thinking, Get Better

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

  Thomas Overbury

  Ambitious, World, Troublesome

  "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,

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