Bear Quotes

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Thought, Afraid, Fact

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
Thom Yorke

Age, Time, Hard

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
Harry Browne

Mistakes, Care, Try

I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins

Writing, Thinking, Guitar

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus

Everyone, Results, Example

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
Gabriel Byrne

Business, Person, Place

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Pain, Pleasure, Gave

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Life, History, True

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Tippi Hedren

Sorry, Everyone, She

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor

Great, Poetry, Hand

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Hosea Ballou

Greatest, Injustice, Burden

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Him, Maturity, Whatever

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.
Ariel Sharon

Time, Reality, Democracy

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
Ethel Merman

Career, Short, Around

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Susannah McCorkle

Time, Cannot, Anyone

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell

Love, God, Wisdom

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.
Ron Chernow

May, Problems, Until

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson

Great, Mind, Forgive

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci

Art, Glory, Rare

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
David Mitchell

Best, Beautiful, Living

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
Omar Bongo

Country, Since, Economic

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding

Themselves, Deserve, Contempt

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Jane Rule

Life, Silence, Presence

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
Alexander McCall Smith

Mind, Learned, Put

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
Alexander McCall Smith

Age, Face, Writers

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
Amy Poehler

Law, Old, Comedy

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
Elliott Smith

Leaving, Put, Trap

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
Paula Poundstone

Rain, Hard, Party

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
Amber Heard

Someone, Proud, Idea

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton

School, Around, Prayer

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