"Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive……" — Charles Darwin
"Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory."
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Charles Darwin
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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More Beehive Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
— Dale Carnegie
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When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
— Terrence Howard
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I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I…
— George Saunders
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You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is…
— Elvis Presley
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Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether…
— Jack White
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
— Rob Sheffield
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I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were…
— Antonio Machado
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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that…
— Che Guevara
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck,…
— Leonard Cohen
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When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out. I clapped my hands.…
— Ilona Andrews
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