Beehive Quotes

#1. I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.

George Saunders

#2. Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

Jack White

#3. Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. 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

#5. The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)

Jonathan Lethem

#6. If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive

Dale Carnegie

#7. There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.

Kevin Kelly

#8. You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

Elvis Presley

#9. I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Antonio Machado

#10. China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

Rahul Gandhi

#11. You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

Rob Sheffield

#12. The workers of Europe ought to henceforth declare themselves as a class a human impossibility ... they ought to inaugurate within the European beehive an age of a great swarming-out such as has never been seen before

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.

Stacy Morris

#14. There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan,

Adriana Trigiani

#15. Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill,
every bee knows the formula of its beehive.
They know it in their own way, not in our way.
Only humankind does not know its own formula.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it bears a deadly sting!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#17. Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Charles Darwin

#18. It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

Leonard Cohen

#19. When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.
I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?

Ilona Andrews

#20. When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

Terrence Howard

#21. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. She remembered the summer evenings all full of sunshine. The colts neighed when any one passed by, and galloped, galloped. Under her window there was a beehive, and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck against her window like rebounding balls of gold.

Gustave Flaubert

#23. The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation ...

Toby Lester

#24. Don't run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Stream is stream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.

Margaret Mitchell

#27. He said, "You misunderstand. We did not kill the nuggies and the other folk hereabouts. They see us, and then they commonly die."
"Of what?" I asked.
"Of embarrassment.

Harry Turtledove

#28. You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#29. Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Alexandre Dumas

#30. I've learned ... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

Andy Rooney

#31. If you can't even talk to the living, then how can you connect with the dead?

Jennifer J. Chow

#32. I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Jim Henson

#33. And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,
so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding,
Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star.

Maggie Stiefvater

#34. Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon

John Geddes

#35. Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

Daria Snadowsky

#36. I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

Olga Kurylenko

#37. It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee

Munia Khan

#38. On my face extended flat
I was walloped with a cat
For listening at the key-hole of the door.

W.S. Gilbert

#39. I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career.

Sean Bean

#40. We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help.

William J. Clinton