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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. -- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -- James Russell Lowell
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. -- Marcus Aurelius
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. -- Abraham Lincoln
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. -- Jean Cocteau
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. -- Alexander Pope
In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees -- Casper Van Dien
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. -- Harold MacMillan
I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos. -- Lena Headey
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. -- David Foster Wallace
Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions. -- Dana Gould
Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. -- Sue Monk Kidd
For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government? -- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower. -- Kin Hubbard
Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees -- Sue Monk Kidd
But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. -- John Keats
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! -- Thomas Hood
The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees -- Sue Monk Kidd
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! -- Isaac Watts
I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee. -- Robin Gibb
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. -- Mary Kay Ash
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say. -- Will Cuppy
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. -- Alfred Austin
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. -- Ray Bradbury
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer. -- Alison Sweeney
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things -- Laurie Lee
In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees. -- Thom Yorke
On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth -- Anthony Doerr
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run. -- George Herbert
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. -- Albert Einstein
My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm! -- Chloe Bridges
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. -- Robin Gibb
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. -- Ashley Smith
The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a while that are kind of like the Queen Bees and the new kids at 'school' just starting out. -- Nicole Gale Anderson
Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work -- William Longgood
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
Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear. -- Bindi Irwin
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on natureâ??s services in a world of close to 7 billion people -- Achim Steiner
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. -- Lewis Thomas
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." -- Lewis Thomas
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -- Charles A. Beard
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'm covered in bees! -- Eddie Izzard
There is nothing perfect...only life. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The bee is domesticated but not tamed. -- William Longgood
I prefer to get fat on honey. -- Stefanie Brook Trout
Every saint has a bee in his halo. -- Elbert Hubbard
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. -- Ramakrishna
If neonicotinoids are the answer, what was the question? -- June Stoyer
The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger. -- Hilda M. Ransome
I was part of a sting operation. We busted some bees. -- Jarod Kintz
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Unrealistic? I think not, that bee was about to murder me. -- Devyn Dawson
I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees. -- Joyce Giraud
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. -- Joseph Joubert
The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them. -- Kobe Bryant
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. -- Mindy Kaling
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. -- John Muir
The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water -- Karl von Frisch
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. -- Brigitte Bardot
I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. -- Henry Rollins
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... -- Leo Tolstoy
In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar. -- Anonymous
I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. -- Beyonce Knowles
Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come. -- Amit Ray
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. -- Jean Henri Fabre
She could feel her pussy lips starting to swell like she had overdosed on lip plumper. Like she had fucked a gang of angry bees. -- Debra Anastasia
Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them."If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
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. -- Suzy Kassem
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. -- Emily Dickinson
Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen. Mindfulness gives us the opportunity to work with the cosmic collaboration. -- Amit Ray
Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made. -- June Stoyer
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die. -- Muriel Barbery
Newborn babies can't do much on their own-They can't eat or walk or talk on the phone-But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation. -- Jennifer Davis
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse. -- Oliver Gaspirtz
Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight. -- Kristen Henderson
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. -- John Galsworthy
People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this. -- Karl Pilkington
I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically. -- Beyonce Knowles
I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human. -- Sue Hubbell
Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee. -- Hilda M. Ransome
It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself. -- Ray Bradbury
There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive. -- Thomas Shepard
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. -- Patti Smith
It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off. -- George Carlin
As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say!" he shouted.Then I'll find another roof, I thought."You understand me?" he said."Yes sir, I understand" I said, and I did too. I understand that a new rooftop would do wonders for me. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The only sounds here were lazy, ponderous, gentle sounds. A bee hung low in the warm afternoon haze, and he watched it unafraid, listened to the dull electric razor sound of its wings cutting the air. Birds sang sweet and unseen, and a hundred eyes watched him from the dark. -- Michael Montoure
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. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms. -- Suzy Kassem
BiologyThe film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap is this going to be? An hour laterThat was the best thing I have seen for ages. We made Miss Wilson rewind the bit where the two queens were having a bitch fight. -- Louise Rennison
Place a beehive on my graveAnd let the honey soak through.When I'm dead and gone,That's what I want from you.The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.Place a beehive on my graveAnd let the honey soak through. -- Sue Monk Kidd
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. -- Lewis Thomas
It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to the garden. We have hummingbirds, tons of bees, and many monarch butterflies. The kids love it! Though we're very laissez-faire with the garden and never put chemicals on it or even water it much! -- Katherine Center
When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years. -- Louie Schwartzberg
One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both. -- Emanuel Cleaver
Every bees hony is sweet. -- George Herbert
bees dig the plum blossoms -- Charles Olson
You never can tell with bees. -- A. A. Milne
My epiglottis is full of bees! -- Jeremy Clarkson
When the flower opens, the bees will come. -- Kabir
Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep. -- Vita Sackville-West
The revery alone will do If bees are few. -- Emily Dickinson
The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic. -- Geraldo Rivera
The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation. -- Herbert Gold
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees. -- Casper Van Dien
The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it. -- Richard Brautigan

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