Welcome to the world of bee-inspired wisdom and inspiration! Bees are not only essential pollinators that play a crucial role in our ecosystems, but they also serve as a symbol of diligence, community, and the interconnectedness of life. From ancient civilizations to modern times, bees have captured the imagination of poets, philosophers, and thinkers from all walks of life. If you’re looking for insightful and meaningful bee quotes that encapsulate the spirit of these remarkable creatures, you’ve come to the right place.
Below, you will find a collection of bee quotes that celebrate the beauty and importance of these tiny marvels of nature. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your next art project, want to add some wisdom to your social media posts, or simply wish to reflect on the lessons we can learn from bees, these quotes are here to enlighten and inspire. Feel free to copy them, pair them with captivating images, or embellish them with stylish fonts to create your own unique bee-themed content. Let the wisdom of bees guide and uplift you on your journey through life.
My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.’ The people were so much fun. It was a great show. Barrett Foa
I can be quite argumentative and stubborn if I get a bee in my bonnet. I can be quite a pain. Declan Donnelly
I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From ’64 to ’69, I’ve got all their albums. Noel Gallagher
It’s about being open to what comes your way. I came to New York and saw ‘Spelling Bee.’ I said to myself, ‘That’s the greatest show ever, and I can’t believe I’m not a part of it.’ I felt the only way I’m going to get to be a part of something that good is to live in New York. So I moved to New York and ended up in ‘Spelling Bee.’ Rory O’Malley
I’m a worker bee, I like to have a schedule, I like to have a place to be, and a time, and a schedule – it just makes sense to me. Bianca Del Rio
I’m an atheist, I always thought, ‘This is it.’ If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I’m fairly stoic about death, but I’m not keen on dying if it’s going to be long and protracted. I don’t have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I’m such a little busy bee. Edmund White
I’m a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I’m like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him. Luca Guadagnino
My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child’s mind. Borns
You’re looking at the Bee Gees right now. Robin Gibb
My parents’ generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do – a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous. Lindsay Duncan
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. Robin Gibb
I was not a queen bee, ever. Emily Berrington
Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee. Bindi Irwin
I’d always listened to my parents’ Bee Gees albums. Britt Daniel
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. Emily Dickinson
I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee’s knees. Yotam Ottolenghi
The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. Rob Huebel
The Bee Gees no longer exist. Barry Gibb
My mother has always been a worker bee, but she’s also a serious foodie. Isabel Gillies
It’s mainly about working hard and proving to people you’re serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they’re the finished articles, the bee’s knees, and it’s not true. Daniel Radcliffe
I’ve said this over and over, but I’ll say it a million more times – I’m concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we’re losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. Patti Smith
My love for the Bee Gees and their disco vibes is huge. Zoe Ball
In the beginning, Barry and I couldn’t decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we’ve decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it. Robin Gibb
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. Kara DioGuardi
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them. Saint Francis de Sales
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. Mindy Kaling
I know Samantha Bee, and I know she’s not a racist or anything. Carl Reiner
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late ’70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording. Taylor Hawkins
I used to watch old clips of Muhammad Ali, where he’d be talking the jive during interviews, you know, ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, man, rumble.’ Michael Buffer
I just got off stage playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd a minute ago. It was a great show. Got to meet some incredible guests. This is the bee’s knees. Bo Bice
I had to get used to seeing Samantha Bee around. I had to get used to seeing Jon, like, getting a bagel, and to John Oliver, and all these people whom I had seen on TV. Colbert would sometimes drop by. I had to get used to being a part of this multiple-Emmy-winning machine and being this 22-year-old black girl who was really green. Jessica Williams
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. Demetri Martin
I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him. Wally Schirra
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius
I don’t trust the Bee Gee’s because there’s no way they could always be happy. Jon Crosby
When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time – when they were playing stadiums all over the world – it was very wearing. Robert Stigwood
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. Hugh Laurie
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee. Emilia Fox
I never smoked cigarettes, I never did hard drugs. But I love bee pollen capsules. Marky Ramone
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it’s never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. Robin Gibb
I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, ‘The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.’ They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I’m just always trying to do that. Borns
I really respect Samantha Bee. Iliza Shlesinger
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali
‘Sewing Bee’ is making people realize that you can do it yourself. Esme Young
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Rodney Dangerfield
While I was writing the songs for ‘Fuzz Universe,’ I was immersing myself in Bulgarian Female Choir music, Baroque lute and violin pieces, Johnny Cash songs about trains, cows, mules, and mining coal, the Bee Gees, and Ronnie James Dio. Paul Gilbert
I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I’m trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don’t always have to be the worker bee. Martellus Bennett
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name? Helen Hunt Jackson
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. Trudie Styler
I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that. Brenda Lee
How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don’t wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine – do it yourself. Whitney Wolfe Herd
When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys – we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that’s a crazy idea. That’s what got us so excited. JC Chasez
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
I’d never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees’ sound. I’m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I’ll be identified as a Bee Gee. Robin Gibb
The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen. John Burroughs
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run. Michael Korda
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. Michael Jackson
I’m a big fan of Samantha Bee’s. Rachael Harris
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert Green Ingersoll
People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don’t know if that’s true, if that’s some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this. Karl Pilkington
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I’m also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. Mayer Hawthorne
What we’re always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that’s something that happens on the ‘Sewing Bee.’ Esme Young
Sewing is getting more mainstream, helped by the BBC show, ‘The Great British Sewing Bee,’ and we have to look at those types of things to see how we can use it as an opportunity. Sara Davies
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey. William Golding
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. Jamie Foxx
If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them. Larry Wilmore
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. Serj Tankian
When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with. John Sebastian
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower. Kin Hubbard
I’m not saying I’m the bee’s knees. But I am a legitimate musician. Kristian Nairn
I would say things like ‘I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!’ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‘That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.’ Muhammad Ali
I think I’m a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees. Matthew Broderick
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I’m a worker bee. Leslie Jordan
Sure I’m leaving the Bee Gees. I’m going into films. Barry Gibb
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me. Joanna Kulig
Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted. Judy Sheindlin
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. Jerry Seinfeld
Nothing gives a person more confidence… than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit. Sue Hubbell
Britain’s most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. Harold MacMillan
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-’80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago. Kaskade
Seriously, though, I think the only musical term that’s ever put a bee in my bonnet is ‘shred.’ I tried to peddle the term ‘Terrifying Guitar’ to the world, but it just didn’t stick. Now we’ve got ‘shred.’ Paul Gilbert
The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice’s name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore. Robin Gibb
Nobody will ever take Maurice’s place, and he’ll go on with us and he’ll go on our music. He’ll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us. Robin Gibb
I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show. Lorne Michaels
I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone’s opinions and so it’s not just about you in your you-dom. Kiki Smith
When the flower blossoms, the bee will come. Srikumar Rao
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since. Safra A. Catz
I’m just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects. David Shields
When a lot of people are distrusting the news they watch, comedians are stepping up talking about things that most people are too afraid to talk about, shining light on problems nobody else will admit, whether it’s Samantha Bee or John Oliver or Trevor Noah. Whitney Cummings
I didn’t see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in ‘Akeelah and The Bee.’ That film made me realize that I wasn’t an alien. Letitia Wright
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don’t get made. David Oyelowo
I’ve never turned into a bee – I’ve never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. R. L. Stine
I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. Rza
For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and ‘The White Album.’ The 70s is the period that I love more than anything. James Righton
I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they’d say, That’s just one of the Bee Gees. Maurice Gibb
My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can’t buy in that they’ve got a bee in their bonnet. Tony Fernandes
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants. Clay Shirky
My grandmother is the queen bee in our family. She gets so much respect from everyone. Jaren Jackson, Jr.
