Bees Quotes
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.
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.
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
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.
If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.
Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
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.
