“There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive.”

“You never can tell with bees.”

“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.”

“Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.”

“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”

“It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

“As spiders touched seek their webs' inmost part,
As bees in storms unto their hives return,
As blood in danger gathers to the heart,
As men seek towns when foes the country burn.”