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Flight Patterns QUOTES

Flight Patterns QUOTES

1 " I’ve always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It’s there with each wave—with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

2 " If you want things to change, you have to stop waiting for someone else to make the first move. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

3 " There are no limits to starting over. That’s why the sun rises every day. Unless you’re running in circles and then the outcome never changes. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

4 " Sometimes all we need to do to forgive our parents is to understand their own childhoods. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

5 " Bees see colors in the ultraviolet range that humans cannot. Some flowers have colored maps like little runways to show the bees where to land. Humans are blind to these special markings, but the bees see them. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

6 " Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

7 " We have a choice. We can count the years we have lost, or we can count the years we still have ahead of us.” She "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

8 " That we need to ask for forgiveness even when we believe we’ve done nothing wrong.” She paused, as if wondering whether she should continue. “And to forgive ourselves. That’s usually the hardest kind of forgiveness. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

9 " The three most difficult things to understand: the mind of a woman, the labor of the bees, and the ebb and flow of the tide.” Georgian proverb —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

10 " It’s a male—a drone. They don’t have stingers.” I "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

11 " A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

12 " If you get stung, lick it,” I said. “Bees have over two hundred pheromones they use to communicate with each other, and they leave some on your skin when they sting to alert the other bees that there’s danger. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

13 " The bee’s brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet the bee has remarkable capacities for learning and remembering things. It is able to make complex calculations on distance traveled and to recall where it’s going and where it’s already been. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

14 " When the wind shifts against the sun, trust it not, for back it will run. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

15 " He who would gather honey must bear the sting of the bees. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

16 " I’m considering entering a convent just so I can get some peace and quiet. Except I’m assuming one has to be Catholic for that. Although it might be worth converting. "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

17 " The male drone’s sole purpose in life is to mate with the queen. The successful male will die during the midair act, and the unsuccessful drone will be kicked out of the hive to starve to death. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

18 " The queen bee is the only bee in the hive that does not have a barbed stinger. This means she can repeatedly sting, like a wasp. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

19 " Queen honeybees are able to sting repeatedly, but queens rarely venture out of hives and would be more likely to use their stingers against rival queens. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns

20 " To remove honey from the hives, the bees must first be pacified by smoke from a bee smoker. The smoke triggers a feeding instinct (an attempt to save the resources of the hive from a possible fire), making them less aggressive. In addition, the smoke obscures the pheromones the bees use to communicate with one another, leaving the hive vulnerable to anyone wanting to take their honey. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL "

― Karen White , Flight Patterns