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Quotes About Bear

The bear knows the scent of dreams as they flow like small streams through the air, and these streams are what they hunt, what they follow to their source, what they gather and bind.
~ Unknown
Bare," came her answer in a squeak. "Yes, we'd both have to be bare," he said with a laugh. "Not bare naked," she gasped. "Bear bear. Furry bear. Bear!" -Mortimer and Sam
~ Lynsay Sands
The only thing they share is death. You know the word?"..."Their bodies crumble and pass into earth. Their souls turn to cold smoke and fly to the underworld. There they eat nothing and drink nothing and feel no warmth. Everything they reach for slips from their grasp." "How do they bear it?" "As best they can.
~ Madeline Miller
But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear.
~ John Irving
THE summer my father bought the bear, none of us was born—we weren't even conceived: not Frank, the oldest; not Franny, the loudest; not me, the next; and not the youngest of us, Lilly and Egg. My father and mother were hometown kids who knew each other all their lives, but their "union," as Frank always called it, hadn't taken place when Father bought the bear.
~ John Irving
Frank, tell us what sex is," Franny would say, but Father would rescue us all by saying, in his dreamy voice, "I can tell you: it couldn't have happened today. You may think you have more freedom, but you also have more laws. That bear could not have happened today.
~ John Irving
Ursus arctos isn't the polar bear, it's the brown bear. Ursus means "bear" in Latin and arctos means "bear" in Greek. The Arctic is named after the bear, not the other way around; it
~ John Lloyd
He knew ten years of stories. I felt keen and hungry as a bear in spring.
~ Madeline Miller
Prometheus' words, deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time. "We bear it as best we can," I said.
~ Madeline Miller
This slice of truth, offered in the final hour, ended up beginning a new chapter of my adulthood, the one in which I realized that age doesn't necessarily bring anything with it, save itself. The rest is optional. Bear
~ Maggie Nelson
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.
~ John Milton
Sleep this night is not a dark haunted domain the mind must consciously set itself to invade, but a cave inside himself, into which he shrinks while the claws of the bear rattle like rain outside. Sunshine
~ John Updike
In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
~ William Shakespeare
Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
~ William Shakespeare
So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.
~ Marian Engel
Bear," she cried. "I love you. Pull my head off.
~ Marian Engel
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
~ Unknown
Arkady was an Investigator of Special Cases, and if a bear running loose in the heart of Moscow was not a special case, he didn't know what was.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Therefore the Law finds man not only unwilling but also unable to do what the Law demands. Thus he says here in the text that on the day of the assembly the people refused and could not hear the voice of the Law, and that therefore they asked for another teacher, one who would speak to them a word they could bear.
~ Martin Luther
If I'd felt like a cloud before, now I was like a planet winking from the heavens. A burden shared wasn't so heavy to bear anymore.
~ Mary E. Pearson
There was death. Violent, oblivious death, in bear form, staring at her with its black eyes. And she knew then, more than she'd known anything, that she wasn't ready to die.
~ Matt Haig
Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.
~ Michael Robotham
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
~ Michelangelo