Top 1200 Worker Bees Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

I think sex work gets over-mystified and overcomplicated because it's about sexuality, and women's sexuality in general. What strikes me when I look at sex worker organizations and sex worker movements, in the US especially, is that they're so in alignment with other longstanding progressive causes. If anything, sex workers have been at the forefront of some of these causes. There have always been sex workers at the forefront of social movements.

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

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

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

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

If bees die out we are really going to be in trouble.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

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

Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.

I really like Charlotte Tilbury and Burt's Bees lipsticks - so moisturising!

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

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.

Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as a sex worker it's all about pleasing people. It's all about creating this fantasy. I still feel like as a writer you actually do have put on a show. You can't just hand over your notes. And there is a degree to which you are appealing to the reader's vanity, whether you tell yourself you're doing that or not.

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em.

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.

In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.

The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'

The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.