Bumble Bee Quotes

• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Beauty, Dream

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• It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Butterfly, Survival, Dinosaurs

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.266, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Beauty, Dream

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• Live your life to the fullest.

  Shakira

  Life, Birthday, Beauty

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

  Emily Dickinson

  Squirrels, Heaven, Afternoon

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

  Hortense Calisher

  Wind, Sound, Bees

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

  Robert Graves

  Doors, Tree, Waiting

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

  Mason Cooley

  Poetry, Machines, Bees

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