The Adventures of Maya the Bee Quotes

“The child was a little afraid to ask questions, the impressions were coming so thick and fast; they threatened to overwhelm her. The general excitement got into her blood, and she set up a fine, distinct buzzing.”

“I have brought up several hundred young bees this spring and given them lessons for their first flight, but I haven’t come across another one that was as pert and forward as you are. You seem to be an exceptional nature.”

″‘The first rule that a young bee must learn,’ said Cassandra, and sighed, ‘is that every bee in whatever it thinks and does, must be like the other bees and must always have the good of all in mind.‘”

“She seemed to be thinking of her own toilsome life- toil from beginning to end, nothing but toil.”

″‘You have good reason to be happy.’ ‘I’m so glad,’ said Maya, ‘that’s what I want to be.‘”

“The hornets are our most formidable enemy, and the wickedest, and the wasps are a useless tribe of thieves, without home or religion.”

“For the next day she was to know the great, wide world, the sun, the sky and the flowers.”

″‘Fast?’ said Maya. ‘How can one fly fast enough? Oh, how sweet the sunshine smells!‘”

″‘Never again will it be as beautiful as it is to-day,’ she thought. ‘I can’t turn back. I can’t think of anything except the sun.‘”

“The sun must be all of gold.”