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Letter "B" » bees
«Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.»
Author: John Galsworthy
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ants, bees, creed, nearly, social service, struggling, The Ants
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.»
Author: William Longgood
| About:
Dawn
| Keywords:
at work, bees, best of all, clings, dew, glisten, glistening, In the Garden, plants, soil, The Garden, The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.»
Author: Bob Hope
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
bees, birds, liar, my father, steady, The Birds, twenty, twenty one, woodpecker, woodpeckers
«To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.»
«The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.»
«Three things must epigrams, like bees have all - A sting and honey and a body small»
«Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.»
«The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
attachment, bees, crave, craved, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, flower, flowers, honey, limits, lotus, lotus flower, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, relationship, rush, rush out, search, sweetness, tasted, The Flowers
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