Honey Quotes - Page 29

• The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

  Quentin Bryce

  Artist, Land, Leader

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• When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Boys, Average, White

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.114, Kodansha America

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• For the loot, honey, for the loot.

  Ava Gardner

  Retirement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.

  Mark Hoppus

  Apples, Water, Together

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• Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
  like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
  I need hands outstretched to receive it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands, Needs, Too Much

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.81, Penguin

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• If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Taken, Blood, Nuts

  Nicholas Culpeper (1992). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal”

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• I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Angel, Milk And Honey, White

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Sorry, honey, but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

  Gregory Peck

  Sorry, Years, Worn

  "Fictional character: Joe Bradley". "Roman Holiday", 1953.

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• At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?

  Christopher Titus

  Daughter, Daddy, Trials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

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• Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

  Jackson Browne

  Redneck, Introducing, Scales

  Song: Red Neck Friend, Album: For Everyman, 1973

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• Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

  Frank Zappa

  Lying, Pants

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• Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

  Bette Midler

  Smell, Infidelity, Pace

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• Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money-- Come, journey the way with me.

  Madison Cawein

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

  Bill Engvall

  Light, Gutters, Lists

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

  Elvis Presley

  Politics, Want, Ifs

  Song: Money Honey, Album: Elvis Presley

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• The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

  Bob Dylan

  Milk And Honey, Land, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.778, Simon and Schuster

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• Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

  Tom Petty

  Drunk, Rejection, Walks

  Song: Rebels

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• Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

  Rachel Johnson

  Mean, Bored, Blonde

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• Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.

  Randy Travis

  Love You, Hair, Care

  Paul Overstreet, Jeanne Halsey, Randy Travis (2001). “Forever and ever, amen: the heart-warming stories behind the music of Paul Overstreet”, Fresh Bread

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• God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Men, Devil

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• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Contemplative Life, People, Jars

  Elizabeth Janeway (1964). “Accident”

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• He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Peace, Bees, Doe

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• Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Past, Blue, Jeans

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• So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Philosophy, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.21, Anchor

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