Things with Wings - July 2023 Theme

  • "With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug, sleep tight little one, like a bug in a rug." - Unknown
  • "It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur" – Meridel Le Sueur
Bee Quotes
  • "The busy bee has no time for sorrow." - William Blake

  • The lovely flowers embarrass me,
    They make me regret I am not a bee. -Emily Dickinson

  • The men of experiment are like the ant;
    they only collect and use.
    But the bee...gathers its materials
    from the flowers of the garden and of the field,
    but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. - Leonardo da Vinci

  • The bee is domesticated but not tamed – William Longgood

  • If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth. –Benjamin Franklin

  • Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
    ― John Muir

  • A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower. –Kin Hubbard
  • When the flower blossoms, the bee will come. –Srikumar Rao

  • For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom – William Shakespeare

  • The sweetest honey
    Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
    And in the taste confounds the appetite. -William Shakespeare

  • If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

  • When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day. -Congo Proverb

  • 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. -Ray Bradbury
Butterfly Quotes
  • “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”
  • “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ― John Keats

  • “’Just living isn’t enough,’ said the butterfly, ‘one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.’” — Hans Christian Anderson

  • “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” — Muhammad Ali

  • “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” — Naya Rivera

  • “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” — Charles Dickens

  • "Butterflies are nature's angels. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive." -Robyn Nola

  • "May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun...And find your shoulder to light on, To bring you luck, happiness and riches...Today, tomorrow and beyond." -Irish Blessing

  • "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." -Maya Angelou

  • “Everyone is like a butterfly. They start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful, graceful butterflies that everyone loves.” — Drew Barrymore

  • “Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.” — Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord
Dragonfly Quotes
  • “May you touch dragonflies and stars, dance with fairies, and talk to the moon.” ― Paulette M.   

  • “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame.” ― Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • “A dragonfly to remind me even though we are apart. Your spirit is always with me.” ― Robyn Nola “The dragonfly charm.

  • Embrace the magic of nature & life will be filled with good fortune.” ― Viola Shipman

  •  “The dragonfly brings dreams to reality and is the messenger of wisdom and enlightenment from other realms.” ― Marty Rubin

  • “Dragonflies are reminders that we are light, and we can reflect light in powerful ways if we choose to do so.” ― Robyn Nola

  • “I am the dragonfly rising on the wings of unlocked dreams on the verge of magical things.” ― Aimee Stewart

  • “Add a pair of wings to a pepper pod, and you will make a dragonfly.” ― Chris Bradford

  • “Fly, Dragonfly, fly! Spread your wings… take off to the skies, follow the blowing winds!” ― O. Eggy

  • “A wet dragonfly can fly again!” ― Anaka Jones

  • “On dragonfly wings with buttercup tea.” ― Indian proverb
Ladybug Quotes

  • "Ladybugs all dressed in red, strolling through the flower bed. If I were tiny just like you, I'd creep among the flowers too!"- Maria Fleming

  • "The ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises—a speckled spectacle of spring, a fashion statement on the wing, a miniature orange kite, a tiny dot-to-dot delight." - J. Patrick Lewis

  • "How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you’d do if raindrops fell as big as you?"
    - Aileen Fisher

  • "I'm sending luck and wishes all wrapped up in a hug. Good things should come your way with this tiny ladybug."
    - Unknown

  • "Lovely little ladybug sent from heaven above please watch over my garden and fill it up with love."
    - Unknown

  • "You can start a ladybug conversation with a total stranger without getting hit in the mouth."
    - Charles Harper

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