Sue Hubbell Quotes

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

Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

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!

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

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.

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

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

Every bees hony is sweet.

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

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

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.

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.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.

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

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

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