130 Little Bee Quotes

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Famous Little Bee Quotes

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. — Charles Tennyson Turner

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. — Edna O'Brien

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting. — Benjamin Franklin

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. - George Herbert

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. — George Herbert

furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love — Megan McCafferty

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another. — Slash Coleman

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom

Bees are Satan's little German Shepherds. — Theo Von

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. — William Shakespeare

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - - Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - — Emily Dickinson

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. — Emily Dickinson

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. - Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. — Mark Nepo

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson

Short Little Bee Quotes

  • If one wants honey he must endure the sting of the bee. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees — Joe Strummer
  • The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness. — Lucy Larcom
  • Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. — Miguel de Cervantes
  • If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour. — Amy Lowell
  • Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. — Christina Rossetti
  • If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Dale Carnegie
  • Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
  • It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. — Sue Monk Kidd

Little Bee Image Quotes

Little bee quote A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.

Flower And Bee Quotes

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. — Mahatma Gandhi

This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian. — Thomas Brooks

Little bee quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. — John Burroughs

If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul. — Ephrem the Syrian

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Little bee quote Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs. — Henry David Thoreau

To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world. — Chip Taylor

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bumble Bee Quotes

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

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

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira

Live your life to the fullest. — Shakira

Little bee quote Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.
Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur. — Meridel Le Sueur

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear... — Emily Dickinson

Little bee quote Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.

I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden. — Winifred Holtby

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

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

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher

Busy Bee Quotes

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

The revery alone will do If bees are few. — Emily Dickinson

The busy bee has no time for sorrow. — William Blake

Little bee quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive. — Desiderius Erasmus

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! — Isaac Watts

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. — Jerry Seinfeld

Little bee quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. — Kin Hubbard

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. — Catherine O'Hara

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him. — George Ade

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Beehive Quotes

The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door. — African Proverbs

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Antonio Machado

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. — Charles Darwin

Little bee quote Don't use a lot where a little will do.
Don't use a lot where a little will do.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue. — George Saunders

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got. — Elvis Presley

Little bee quote The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.

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. — Joe Rogan

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. — Terrence Howard

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude. — Rob Sheffield

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'. — Rahul Gandhi

Bees And Honey Quotes

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

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" ) — Patricia Polacco

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little bee quote Smile a little more, regret a little less.
Smile a little more, regret a little less.

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

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. — Michel de Montaigne

Little bee quote A little progress each day adds up to big results.
A little progress each day adds up to big results.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. — Alton Brown

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze. — John Updike

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 keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. — Henry David Thoreau

Honey Bee Quotes

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. - Kabir

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. — Kabir

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost. — Teresa of Avila

The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook. — John Burroughs

If all the bees made honey, there would be enough for even gypsies to eat — Greek Proverbs

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. — Buddha

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. — Ernest A. Fortin

No bees, no honey; no work, no money. — Proverbs

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. — Kenneth Kaunda

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More Little Bee Quotes

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. — Leigh Hunt

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. — John Oliver

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. — Chris Cleave

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. — Chris Cleave

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up. — Erma Bombeck

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue. — Martin Buber

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor. — Nikola Tesla

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. — Chris Cleave

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'. — Chris Cleave

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom. — Rob Huebel

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do. — Walt Disney

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name — A. A. Milne

On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional. — Natasha Richardson

Every little thing wants to be loved. — Sue Monk Kidd

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. — Agnes Denes

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope. — Chris Cleave

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me. — Robert Burns

I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved. — Sue Monk Kidd

I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas have been amazing. You know, Michelle Obama, she planted that garden. She keeps bees there at the White House. Little known fact, though, is that Laura Bush also had an organic garden but she never told anyone about it. — Novella Carpenter

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail. — Edward Young

The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies. — John Gay

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. — Edmund White

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.] — George Herbert

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little. — Louise Bourgeois

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways. — Dan Millman

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

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive — Chris Cleave

We don't forget.... 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 came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are. — Alexander McCall Smith

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come! — Emily Dickinson

On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees or something. Then when I saw the fat kid with the watch who was timing you start laughing…. Well, I’ll just say it’s never a good sign when a fat kid laughs at you. — Justin Halpern

A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity humming like a bee, a communion tasting of flowers, a way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips! — Edmond Rostand

In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness. — Grant Morrison

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. — Chris Cleave

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. — Chris Cleave

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee — Chris Cleave

Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum. — Chris Cleave

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile. — Chris Cleave

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. — Chris Cleave

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