Quotes About Bears
When a stretch of Eye Street was finally ready, he had the barricades gracefully opened by two trained bears on loan from the circus. As a result, both Metro and the circus got good press. Even then Pfanstiehl could not please everybody; a labor representative berated him for giving work to nonunion bears.
~ Unknown
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Grant that on this voyage we may frequently kill bears, as they may be crossing the Scioto and Sandusky.
~ Horace Kephart
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I don't know anything about the Chicago Bears, but I know a few things about bears. I know they eat fish out of rivers sometimes. They like salmon. They're cuddly-looking, but they're very vicious.
~ Luke Hemmings
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It's all your fault. I'm not usually so noisy. -It worked to our advantage. You kept the bears scared off.
~ Jill Shalvis
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Are there bears in Western Virginia? she whispered. Cut it out, Caroline, said Eddie. But Beth gave a little gasp. Are there? If there are bears in West Virginia, they're way up in the mountains, Eddie said. Caroline knew that Eddie didn't know what she was talking about any more than Beth knew about bears, but she didn't ask any other questions because she didn't really want to know the answers.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked and fluttered magically like leaves without trees. More bears than people traveled the muddy road, leaving tracks straight up and down the middle of it...
~ Denis Johnson
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Dr. Stern told me that the wilderness of Carolina is alive wi' fierce creatures—bears and wildcats and wicked panthers—and a great foul thing the Indians call a skunk!
~ Diana Gabaldon
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Had it been this way where she came from? Had fires and food held back a jungle darkness, kept away leopards instead of bears? Had light and company given comfort, and the illusion of safety? For illusion it had surely been—fire was no protection against men, or the darkness that had overtaken her. I had no words to ask.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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The stereotype imagines a Wall Street populated by bulls and bears. In reality, the Street itself is neither bull nor bear but shark, constantly shifting direction in an eternal search for food.
~ Unknown
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Nature is freedom and sunshine. Nature is also bears, yellow jackets, rockfall and vertical exposure. Nature wins.
~ Unknown
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In the year 1377, a poet in what is now Germany speaks of entering the Great Wilderness, an unbroken forest that took three days to cross and was home to bison, wild boar, wild horses, wolves, bears, lynxes, and wolverines: "Pleasantry and laughing had become hushed," he writes.
~ Unknown
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They are dreamers, these women, these bears, they are seers and speakers of truth, dancers of time, travelling the world, gathering stories.
~ Unknown
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A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
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Since most callers have until moments before been completely unaware that there are bears in New Jersey, there is often in their voices a component of alarm, up to and including terror. McConnell's response is calmer than pavement. She speaks in tones that range from ho to hum. "Yes, there are bears in your area," she says, and goes on to say, with an added hint of congratulation, "You live in beautiful bear habitat.
~ John McPhee
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The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'
~ Unknown
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Division There is a depth of darkness In the wild country, days of evening And the silence of the moon. I have crept upon the bare ground Where animals have left their tracks, And faint cries carry on the summits, Or sink to silence in the muffled leaves. Here is the world of wolves and bears And of old, instinctive being, So noble and indifferent as to be remote To human knowing. The scales upon which We seek a balance measure only a divide.
~ N. Scott Momaday
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Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
~ 2 Kings 2:24
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