Top 56 Bees Come Quotes
#1. When the flower blooms
The bees come uninvited.
Ramakrishna
#2. You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.
Amit Ray
#3. 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
#4. Non apibus dubitandem est.
(You never can tell with bees.)
~ Winnie ille Pu
A.A. Milne
#5. Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
Joan Bauer
#6. From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
Tony Juniper
#7. It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Peter Fonda
#8. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
[The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]
George Herbert
#9. One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees ...
Leo Tolstoy
#10. Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.
Gunther Hauk
#12. Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
Barbara Ehrenreich
#13. He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#14. Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#15. 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
#16. It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.
Cynthia Lewis
#17. Bees see colors in the ultraviolet range that humans cannot. Some flowers have colored maps like little runways to show the bees where to land. Humans are blind to these special markings, but the bees see them. - NED BLOODWORTH'S BEEKEEPER'S JOURNAL
Karen White
#18. [Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
#19. Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
John Lyly
#20. 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
#21. Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money
Come, journey the way with me.
Madison Cawein
#22. Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
James Russell Lowell
#23. If you let words go buzzing out of your mouth like bees, she always told me, they will come back and sting you.
Susan Fletcher
#24. When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!
W.B.Yeats
#25. 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
#26. Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are. And who am I?
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. When the flower opens, the bees will come.
Kabir
#28. Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em.
Phil Robertson
#29. A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.
John Douillard
#30. 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
#32. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#33. For us, all that's left is kisses
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive.
Osip Mandelstam
#34. It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
Karel Capek
#35. Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.
John Brown
#36. But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ...
George Eliot
#37. When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]
George Herbert
#38. Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -
sensitive and at the same time carefully;
but we never destroy them.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#39. The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly
#40. '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
#41. For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.
Susan Brackney
#42. My bees cannot sting." "You mean they haven't stung anyone yet." "Is there a difference?" "What do you do with the honey?" "What honey?" "From the bees." U Ba looked at me. "I wouldn't touch it. It belongs to the bees.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#45. Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another Santa. That's what all those mall Santas are. They're trying to start their own festive colonies.
Thomm Quackenbush
#46. Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Josh Billings
#47. Royal jelly is the substance that worker bees produce and feed to the queen bee. Because the queen bee is the only bee that is fertile within the colony, laying around 2000 eggs per day, this substance is considered to help promote fertility in humans as well.
Sally Moran
#49. The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
John Lennon
#51. The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.
Joseph Simmons
#52. Daemon: Ever hear the saying you catch more lions with honey than vinegar?
Katy: I think it's 'catch more bees' and not lions.
Daemon: Whatever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#53. Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
Robert Genn
#54. 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
#55. Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.
Chuck Palahniuk
