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Quotes About Beehives

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
~ James Ellis
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
~ Christopher Bollen
Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence
~ Antonio Machado
This would be an extinction event for humanity. We can't let it happen. It is also a who-poisoned-my-beehives event for the Black Pharaoh, which is why He's trying to prevent it. (We bring Him honey: He keeps us around.)
~ Charles Stross
The pessimists prophesy a future of rubble, but the optimistic prophets are even more horrifying when they proclaim the future city where baseness and boredom dwell, in intact beehives.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila