Top 1200 Worker Bees Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'm not a genius; I'm a worker.

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

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

I was a hard worker.

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

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?

I'm just a worker.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to the millions of Mexicans who have to build our roads, dams, schools, all the things that are left undone in Mexico while we have the manpower. There is something very bad going on, on both sides of the border in Mexico and the US. But the worker is a worker, not a criminal. So, I am in favor of a solution such as the Kennedy-McCain proposals that make it clear what steps have to be taken to accept the fact that the US needs foreign workers.

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 bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

I'm a hard worker.

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.

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

I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So any kind of pain and difficulty is so much unwelcome that if you say that you're in pain, we're going to even pay you full salary to quit work because you're burned out, inside that what you're going to create is gigantic amounts of chronic pain syndrome. Scandinavians spend 15 percent of their gross national product on disability. 50 percent of the public health nurses are on disability. And that's where we're headed in the U.S. too.

The almond, the first fruit to flower round the Mediterranean, heralds the arrival of spring. It is also an early nectar for the honey bees.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

I'm a worker bee.

I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.

I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

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.

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

I'm a pretty hard worker.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

I'm a fighter. I'm a worker.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

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

Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

My father was a manual worker.