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Quotes About Bees

È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.
~ Unknown
E' il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.
~ Unknown
Bees and honey are good for men and women and little boys. If you eat honey, you're strong, never get sick. If you get stung, it makes you even stronger. And you eat the royal jelly? You live and live and live. And a beekeeper, he does not have to work so hard all year. It's a good dream. Every night, I dream the war is over. Crazy Stalin, loony Hitler, all gone, dead, to hell. In my dream, I throw my gun away, go home, raise bees, make honey, and find a good woman to make happy.
~ Unknown
I can't wrangle bees. I'm terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives." "Hives! That's adorbs, right?
~ Mary Kay Andrews
I'm charming and handsome. They take my pen. I buy the poem from the garden of bees for one euro. A touch on the arm. A mystery word. The sky has two faces. For reasons unaccountable my hand trembles. In Roman times if they were horrified of bees they kept it secret
~ Unknown
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Bees will not work except in darkness; Thought will not work except in Silence; neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Everything written has a political bearing, even in the case of a study on bees.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Four-Word Lines" Your eyes are just like bees, and I feel like a flower. Their brown power makes a breeze go over my skin. When your lashes ride down and rise like brown bees' legs, your prolonged gaze makes my eyes gauze. I wish we were in some shade and no swarm of other eyes to know that I'm a flower breathing bare, laid open to your bees' warm stare. I'd let you wade in me and seize with your eager brown bees' power a sweet glistening at my core.
~ May Swenson
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
~ Mindy Kaling
Violins sound nervously like the buzzing of bees - these are thoughts. Spontaneity is the bridge of consciousness to the subconscious of the true self, that is, sincerity.
~ Unknown
Do not confuse democracy, anarchy and monarchy. Because the bees are happy and democratically assigned to their posts despite having the queen as their sole leader.
~ Unknown
Once they are gone, they are gone forever. ---- Sheila Colla, referring to our endangered native bees, as noted on the blog Liber Ero (from the book The Humane Gardener)
~ Unknown
simple point is that institutions are to humans what hives are to bees. They are the structures within which we organize ourselves as groups. You know when you are inside one, just as a bee knows when it is in the hive. Institutions have boundaries, often walls. And, crucially, they have rules.
~ Niall Ferguson
You let my mother know what you're about," she said in Irish, just in case. "On purpose. My mother knows this. And you two are deep in your game, and I am one of those bees, sent by the queen bee to buzz from hive to hive to flower, not knowing what's really going on." "Well," he said. "I'm surprised it took you so long.
~ Nicola Griffith
What do you call a pig with laryngitis? Disgruntled. Why do bees stay in their hives during winter? Swarm. Why is "dark" spelled with a k and not c? Because you can't see in the dark.
~ Old Farmer's Almanac
the honeycomb. It was lovely. Not one bit stolen. The farmer loved the bees and did things in the proper way. It was full of silent bells and drowsy summer afternoon.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
honey-hunting bees.
~ Unknown
Ubi mel ibi apes.
~ Paul Levine
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
~ Peter Fonda
When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lionís carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
~ Judges 14:8
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
~ Isaiah 7:18