Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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

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

Every bees hony is sweet.

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

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

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 bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

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

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

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.

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.

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.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

No beehive. Beehives - we sort of put them - well, we revive them sometimes.

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.