Quotes About The Secret Life Of Bees

#1. All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Words are the most beautiful things existed in the world, but they die as fast as they were born, unless you convert them to act!
The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

Luanne Rice

#5. 'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. There is nothing perfect...only life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them.

C. Terry Warner

#8. Even though he's asleep, he somehow still looks as if he's in a world of pain.

Colleen Hoover

#9. I was afraid, though, the blame would find a way to stick to them. That's how blame was.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have more ways to say it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. As I walked, I began to hear the sound of running water. It's impossible to hear that sound and not go searching for the source.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.

Tom Ford

#15. As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say!" he shouted.
Then I'll find another roof, I thought.
"You understand me?" he said.
"Yes sir, I understand" I said, and I did too. I understand that a new rooftop would do wonders for me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. You never know what really lies under a look and you can't apply reason to every feeling. But it's all there.

Katy Evans

#17. We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

John Cage

#18. You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards -Secret Life of the Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

#19. There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

James M. Kouzes

#20. People evaluate you in terms of how you handle things going forward.

Chris Lehane

#21. People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

John Stumpf