Hive Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps,… — Francis Quarles
Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees. — Katherine Dunn
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
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… — Charles Tennyson Turner
O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to… — Saint Francis de Sales
When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to… — Saint Francis de Sales
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like… — James Patterson
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that… — Osip Mandelstam
Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know… — Graham Joyce
I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that… — Veronica Roth
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids arenâ€™t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madmanâ€™s conception of a… — Robert A. Heinlein
Been meddling, have you?â€ Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. â€œYou must admit they didnâ€™t have much in the way of a… — Michael J. Sullivan
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. — Jean Cocteau
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once youâ€™re in, the workers… — Neil Gaiman
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson
â€ŽWhat color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human… — Kevin Kelly
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive? — Thomas Hood
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… — Clay Shirky

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