Flight Patterns Quotes

“If you want things to change, you have to stop waiting for someone else to make the first move.”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“Sometimes all we need to do to forgive our parents is to understand their own childhoods.”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“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

“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

“Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most.”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“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

“When the wind shifts against the sun, trust it not, for back it will run.”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“It’s a male—a drone. They don’t have stingers.” I”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“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

“He who would gather honey must bear the sting of the bees. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“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

“The queen bee has control over the sex of the eggs she lays. If she uses stored sperm to fertilize the egg, the larva that hatches is female. If the egg is left unfertilized, the larva that hatches is male. This means that female bees inherit genes from their mothers and their fathers, while male bees inherit only genes from their mothers. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“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

“In cooler weather, the bees remain in the beehive but don’t hibernate. The queen doesn’t lay eggs but stays in a bee cluster surrounded by her worker bees. They flap their wings nonstop, keeping the temperature in the beehive around ninety-one degrees until warmer weather arrives. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“As queen honeybees age, their egg-laying abilities decrease. When an old queen begins to falter in performing such responsibilities, workers will induce her replacement. The aging queen is killed after the new queen emerges. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“I remembered my grandfather telling me to always remove the stinger as quickly as possible, because it will continue to pump venom into the skin for as long as ten minutes. But”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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

“When a hive is invaded by a wasp, the bees cluster around the intruder and fan their wings to make it 117 degrees, knowing that wasps cannot survive temperatures above 116. This is the ultimate act of survival, as the bees will die if the temperature reaches 118 degrees. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

“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