Best Bees Quotes

As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

My business is words. Words are like labels,or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

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.

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!

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

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.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber’s touch.

If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.

You never can tell with bees.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

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

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations. I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he’s fighting a swarm of bees.

I was a coin collector.I didn’t know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn’t aware of what was cool. My dad wasn’t around so he couldn’t shake me and say, ‘Drop the coin collecting bit. It’s not where you want to go.’ So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

I’m a big fan of Samantha Bee’s.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: Aren’t you tired of waiting? Yes, answers the rose, but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn’t. It’s programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other – deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.