Hive Mother

Famous quotes containing the words hive and/or mother:

    They yelleden as fiendes doon in hell;
    The duckes cryden as men would them quell;
    The geese for feare flewen over the trees;
    Out of the hive came the swarm of bees.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    My mother bore me in the southern wild,
    And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
    William Blake (1757–1827)