Bee Hive Quotes

#1. Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.

Samuel Rogers

#2. That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

George Will

#4. There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#5. No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

John Updike

#7. There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

Kevin Kelly

#8. Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him
but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration
we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

Albert E Cliffe

#10. Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

Philip James Bailey

#11. I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey ... executing the plan!

Nancy Lublin

#12. But this Ruth Mummert...he felt things for her he had never felt for Salome. Was that love, also? If it were, it was like a fire that warmed him and threatened to burn him all at once.

Jan Drexler

#13. 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

#14. What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16. A Christian without a church is like a bee without a hive.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#17. So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive ...

Desiderius Erasmus

#18. Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

Teresa Of Avila

#19. When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

Thomas Hood

#20. I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

Jessica Chastain

#21. The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Charles Tennyson Turner

#22. One bee cannot build a hive; one ant cannot build a colony.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don't care what their job is
they know the queen is their mother. She's the mother of thousands.

Sue Monk Kidd

#24. What can I get you? (Wulf)
How about someone else to have this kid for me? (Cassandra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a mechanical bee placed near the hive. The real bees were happy being bees until I came along and gave them all the false information that destroyed their little lives.

James Tate

#26. Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

Franz Grillparzer

#27. What went down well?" Mum asks, coming back to the table. "Nothing," I say. "The Titanic," Elliot says.

Zoe Sugg

#28. He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#29. Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his hive's back room.

Dennis Vickers