Quotes About Bees

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

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

I hate grate talkers; i had rather hav a swarm of bees lite onto me.

When the bees' feet shake the bells of the heather, and the ruddy strings of the sap-stealing dodder are twined about the green spikes of the furze, it is summertime on the commons. Exmoor is the high country of the winds, which are to the falcons and the hawks: clothed by whortleberry bushes and lichens and ferns and mossed trees in the goyals, which are to the foxes, the badgers, and the red deer: served by rain-clouds and drained by rock-littered streams, which are to the otters.

Draußen summten motivierte Hummeln vorbei.

This secluded spot was the haunt of thousands of honey bees that zimmed all through the warm days at their business. I could sit amongst the bees for hours on end and feel happy, although why they pleased me so I cannot tell.

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

This speaker may turn out to be a "confidence man" with a trick up his sleeve, but we are attracted by such familiar flavors of speech, the way that bees are attracted to the blue juice of a melting popsicle.

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

Perhaps you would like to come into the cabin,' said Jack, taking Stephen's elbow in an iron grip. 'Your things will be brought aboard directly, never trouble yourself' – Stephen cast a look into the boat and seemed about to break away. 'I shall see to it myself at once, sir,' said the first lieutenant. 'Oh, Mr Simmons,' cried Stephen, 'pray bid them be very tender of my bees.' 'Certainly

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

For a moment all my bees have turned to honey.

But they are also life giving. They impregnate flowers, and they give us our food supply. They work as a collective. Plus they are responsible for the line: "And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

For a moment all my bees have turned to honey. Page 302.

They have long grown accustomed to the hum of passion at work in the walls, the bees crawling over swollen combs to cram every inch with cells, till the sheer weight of honey unconsumed shows with the ceiling's fall.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

Take time to smell the roses but be careful of the bees.

doubt lingers around anticipation like bees hover around flowers. [...] the best antidote for doubt is presence.

He told me that when a male honeybee mates, its testicles explode and the penis is left inside the queen bee.