Honeybee Quotes

“I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder not stronger
What would that be like?
We don't even know”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose

“I have slept so many times you might think I would really be awake by now”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“I’m still the kid dreaming of the lives she’ll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn’t want them.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“So ask yourself, you swirling tornado of a human being, in a world of disoriented honeybees, do you want to look locked out the minute you sit down?”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“Only in words on a page can it still be yesterday.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“Maybe we should just wander around other countries carrying books.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“It is difficult to predict what our finest moments will be, but we know when they happen.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“He’s mourning his son, number 3000 American dead in Iraq, but as far as he can feel, the worst one.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“Last night I dreamed—blessed illusion—
that I had a beehive here
in my heart
and that the golden bees were making
white combs and sweet honey
from my old failures.

— Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems (HarperCollins, 2009)”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose

“And didn’t we pledge, pledge, pledge, palms on our chests, every day we lived, pledge to the one nation, the freedom we believed in, didn’t we? Fat lot of good.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee

“There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee