Top 100 The Bear Quotes
#1. out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then in the dread of his heart he cried: 'Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will
Jacob Grimm
#2. I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.
Ned Hayes
#3. I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.
Delia Sherman
#5. What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
Donald Pleasence
#6. People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
Lorne Michaels
#7. The boy shivered. The bear sniffed the air.
"What do you smell now?" said the boy.
"Danger!" said the bear.
The boy looked alarmed. The bear sniffed again.
"Or maybe marmalade," said the bear.
The boy gave him a dubious stare.
"Possibly both," said the bear.
Dave Shelton
#8. [Suddenly letting slip the train of thought.] Do you know, the people down at the hotel think she's mad. PROFESSOR RUBEK. Indeed? And pray what do the people down at the hotel think of you and the bear-killer?
Henrik Ibsen
#9. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...
Ralph Ellison
#10. Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.
Greg Evigan
#11. Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl
Miranda July
#12. You stand up straw men," Nynaeve said. "We have a saying in the Two Rivers. 'Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.' Take your contest somewhere else and leave Emond's Field folk out of it.
Robert Jordan
#13. Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.
Peter Conrad
#14. The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: 'Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.' Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and
Jacob Grimm
#15. Would not feel me between your teeth. Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again. The girls had run away,
Jacob Grimm
#16. For a moment, half blinded by dirt, I couldn't see Jamie at all. Then I spotted him. He was under the bear, one arm locked around its neck, his head tucked into the joint of the shoulder just under the drooling jaws.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you,
John Harbaugh
#18. What happened?"
-Ethon
"Obviously something was hungry and bit the bear."
-Kali
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. It sounds like you sort of made that woman buy you the bear - " "Celeste." "Celeste, whether she wanted to or not. Do you see what I'm saying?
James Patterson
#21. Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with.
Gwendoline Christie
#22. It is always the same trap," she said gently. "You longed for conversation. The bear craved jokes. The gray wolf missed music. The boar just wanted someone to tell her troubles to. The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
Leigh Bardugo
#23. Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.
King Tuff
#24. If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.
Mila Kunis
#25. I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
Mencius
#27. The bear and I --
we rise like a windstorm
to witness these old trees talk.
Vivian Demuth
#28. Hand in hand they whispered for a while. The girl nodded and the bear laughed. Together, they made their way down the corridor and to the foot of the stairs.
Stephen Craig
#29. Did you hear what I said?"
"I'm still getting over being chased by a bear." The bear was nothing compared to seeing Lori naked.
"Right." Then she pulled on her jeans.
Terry Spear
#30. This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
William Shakespeare
#31. If we cannot be torn in pieces by the roaring lion, if we may be hugged to death by the bear, the devil little cares which it is, so long as he destroys our love to Christ, and our confidence in Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. Sometimes you eat the bear; sometimes the bear eats you. --The Bear
Gary J. Cook
#33. Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you, and some days you cannot even find the woods.
MariJo Moore
#34. My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.
Rachel Hartman
#35. You live
under the Sign
of the Bear, who flounders through chaos
in his starry blubber:
poor fool,
poor forked branch
of applewood, you will feel all your bones break
over the holy waters you will never drink.
Galway Kinnell
#36. The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.
Isaac Newton
#37. If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear
Kobe Bryant
#38. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski
#39. When you're getting chased by a zombie bear, I guess you don't need to be faster than the bear, just faster than your friends. I briefly contemplated shooting Grant in the leg.
Larry Correia
#40. He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
N. Scott Momaday
#41. The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses
Robert Jordan
#42. The ants are bad" The Bear
"the ants?"Tahir
"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.
Tahir Shah
#43. The Bear son was surrounded. But it did not matter. He cut thorugh them all, laughing.
Tessa Gratton
#44. It. I don't mean to poke the bear, but I've got one nerve left, and Maddox is dry-humping it. So, could you all move it along?
Jamie McGuire
#45. 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
#47. And since October is coming to an end, what better time to draw Octo-Bear, the bear that is an octopus!
Dan Bergstein
#48. I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.
P. W. Botha
#49. See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
C.S. Lewis
#50. The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.
Bob Hope
#51. If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.
Joseph Granville
#52. Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.
Nalini Singh
#53. It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra.
Haruki Murakami
#54. My grandpa once told me never to provoke an injured bear, especially one nursing its wounds, but sometimes the bear needs to be poked.
Katie McGarry
#55. I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.
Drew Daywalt
#56. The bear was snarling as usual. Watching Raven breathe, it really was like the bear was breathing, too.
C.L.Stone
#57. See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
Stephen King
#58. I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.
Terry Tempest Williams
#59. You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.
Jim Butcher
#60. Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly.
'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.
Jennifer Crusie
#61. The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.
Brandon Mull
#62. The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.
Paul McCulley
#63. Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
Robert Jordan
#65. Do those Guests really cover themselves in honey and run naked into the bear enclosure?" "Oh yes." Kay grinned. "The bears are well-compensated for their trouble.
Cat Amesbury
#66. That's not me, it's the bear." Her smile widened and she rolled her eyes. "Sure, blame it on the bear." "True story.
Lia Davis
#67. Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Harold Macmillan
#68. Pessoa talked about there being no escape," the bear said. "He was right.
Tao Lin
#69. Right now he was having a hell of a time keeping the bear under control. He wanted to roar and tear Massimo limb from limb. He wanted to toss his lifeless body away from Cassie. "Stop the growling, Talen," Gerri snapped. "You scared her into fainting. There's something you don't see every day.
Milly Taiden
#70. Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Hunter Austin
#71. The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form and was in fact an ancestor of the Ojibways. Therefore he understands the Indian language and will never attack or fight any Indian if he is addressed properly.
Norval Morrisseau
#72. I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.
Jim Cramer
#73. Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.
Sam Elliott
#74. I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#75. I was adopted into the Muchquauh, the Bear Clan, of the Muhheconneok people when I reached manhood. The grannies got so tired of my bein' forever at their fires eatin' their food that they decided to make me part of the family so they could quit treatin 'me like a guest and send me out to fish.
Pamela Clare
#76. In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.
James Buchan
#78. You poked the bear, Tink, so you better hope someone can put him in a cage.
Jay Crownover
#79. The bear in him roared. Take! He backed her against the wall, his arms caging her there. "Is that so, lassie?" Chest to chest, thigh to thigh, his gaze bore into her shocked eyes. "Aye, ye'd do well to be afraid of me, for I want ye naked beneath me like I've never wanted another woman before.
Vonnie Davis
#80. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#81. I was wondering if my life, the life in which I had a son and a beautiful, young girlfriend, could exist outside of the hospital. Or was the hospital its container? Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?
Miranda July
#82. Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
Claire Cameron
#83. Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
Robert Jordan
#84. That spring he found the old bear, dead, in one of the caves. He slept beside the body. He dreamed the bear was his father. That was when he gave up being human. He gave her up as well.
Alice Hoffman
#85. So, in the morning light, where they flapped in the drying wind, the bear and the star defied the Saxons.
Bernard Cornwell
#86. There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.
Jesse Livermore
#87. I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
Elliott Smith
#88. She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.
Bobby Petrino
#89. John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.
Frank Broyles
#90. In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music.
Orson Scott Card
#91. Somedays you eat the bear, somedays the bear eats you
Mr. T
#92. So much of love is curiousity, a search inside the other for some little piece of self; emerging from the bear cave of them with your birthday candle and filament of ore: the same as that I'm made of!
Anna Funder
#93. The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.
Kenneth Fisher
#94. And damn well no 5-0 with his Smokey the Bear looking sidekick, will ever tell me differently.
J.J. McAvoy
#95. Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.
Sean Covey
#96. I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.
Claire Cameron
#97. I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.
James Nicoll
#98. This is the Presley and Zachary of old times. Two hot-headed and emotional people. Yes, he's sweet and loving, but he has an angry side. When you poke the bear, he roars loud. Funny thing is that I'm the same. He's pissed me off by coming here yelling at me.
Corinne Michaels
#99. The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.
Ernest Hemingway,
#100. We weren't arguing," said the bear. "Because we can't talk." Then it said, "Oops.
Neil Gaiman
