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Quotes About Bears

Girls doing science are like bears riding bikes. Possible, but freakish
~ Richard Powers
What else is there to say to a bear? 'Apologize!' I tell him. People very stupid. They forget everything--where they come from, where they go. I say, 'Don't worry. People leaving this world very soon. Then the bear get top bunk to himself again.
~ Richard Powers
The fog's gone in here," I said. "It was marine fog. It doesn't penetrate the forest." "Yeah," Corey said. "I'm thinking the fog's not such a problem. It's very…dark. We don't know what's in there." "Yeah, we do," Sam said. "Bears, cougars, wolves…
~ Kelley Armstrong
El delito es la ruptura de una regla social importante. Los animales solitarios no tienen reglas. Un oso invadirá la cueva de otro oso, robará su alimento y matará a sus oseznos. Los lobos no hacen esas cosas; si las hicieran, no vivirían en manadas. Los lobos son monógamos, unos cuidan los cachorros de los otros y respetan el espacio particular ajeno. Si un individuo quebranta las reglas, lo castigan; si reincide, lo expulsan de la manada o lo condenan a muerte.
~ Ken Follett
A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty years of observation. It allows for predictions and states, in short, that when a female bear bears three cubs, and they aren't all male or female, it will invariably be either two males and a female, or two females and a male.
~ Wolfgang Klein
First, local guides were engaged, and all three—Frank Carson, Les Hibble, and Sam Thompson—warned that the planned ramble was far riskier than the Northern men realized, even before the campers reached the massive Everglades. The region between Fort Myers and the 'Glades was prowled by panthers and bears. The panthers lurked in the brush and made sounds like babies crying. If you were fooled and went to look, you would be attacked.
~ Jeff Guinn
This is a worrying recipe. Young bears (cubs will need about two and a half hours of cooking) might well still be attended by their mothers, who are notoriously irritable when anything threatens their offspring. Choose, rather, an old friendless bear and double the cooking time.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.
~ Emily Calandrelli
I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?
~ Penny Lancaster
Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
~ Katee Sackhoff
Here it is not a question of liberalism or nationalism. But worse than that – bears. It's a real invasion, and that's why we talk about them at our Party meetings. We're seriously thinking of leaving.
~ Richard West
Well," Amelia said, "basically my polar bears have taken over my airship.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl, " her father said, looking worried, " 'specially the renegade ones. They'll turn you every way but loose.
~ B.J. Daniels, Renegade's Pride
Our minds were down below, being feasted on by the bears.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
~ Gustave Flaubert
To this day, while maintaining a healthy respect for the Giants and Jets and other teams I cover, I admit to checking the results every Monday to see how the Bears did.
~ George Vecsey
A bordélynegyed szívében pedig ismét felbukkantak a táncoló medvék és a törpe zsonglÅ'rök, az egyenruhába öltöztetett majmok, akiket arra idomítottak, hogy meghaljanak a hazáért.
~ Salman Rushdie
I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.
~ Tom Perrotta
Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.
~ Joseph Monninger
In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.
~ Lydia Millet
I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
~ John Muir
THE game of Corner—for in its heyday it was a game, a high-stakes gambling game, pure and simple, embodying a good many of the characteristics of poker—was one phase of the endless Wall Street contest between bulls, who want the price of a stock to go up, and bears, who want it to go down.
~ John Brooks
My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.
~ Kim Richards
What' cha doing out here all alone? Did you forget how to find Sanctuary? (Simi) No. I want to be alone for a bit. (Gallagher) Why? Were the bears mean to you? Mama can get a bit cranky whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I'm going to eat one, but bleh! They're way too hairy. Now if she'd let me skin one, I might be interested. (Simi) Are you joking? (Gallagher) Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon