Bees Quotes

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.

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.

For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

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.

Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you. Some days you feel as if you are floating over the wispy clouds and the majestic mountains. Other days you feel as if you are swimming alongside the beautiful myriad colored fishes in the vast ocean. Some days you feel as if you can understand the language of the birds and the bees and other days you feel as if the walls and doors are talking to you!

The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I’ve known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.