Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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

I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!

My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

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

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

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

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bees.

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.

Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

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.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

Bears need people. People need bears.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.