Little Bee Quotes

• 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

  Dream, Long, Bees And Honey

  Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

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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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• So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

  Chris Cleave

  Refugee, Refuge

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

  Chris Cleave

  Ocean, Two, World

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

  John Taylor

  Prayer, Work, Men

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• On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Stars, Healing

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

  Chris Cleave

  Country, Suffering, Horror

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

  Chris Cleave

  Horse, Bombs, Littles

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Dying, Doe

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Secret, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

  Chris Cleave

  Two, Horror

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Would Be, Serious

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

  Chris Cleave

  Running, Names, Capes

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Jobs, Work

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Buzz, Bees

  "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Louis Woods, 1967.

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

  A. A. Milne

  Names, Littles, Found

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.57, Egmont UK

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• Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Moving, Cat, Kids

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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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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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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 have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

  Martin Buber

  Learning, Knowledge, Reality

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