bear Quotes

“Those furious zealots who are for cramming it down the throats of the people, without allowing them either time or opportunity to scan or weigh it in the balance of their understandings, bear the same marks in their features as those who have been long wishing to erect an aristocracy in THIS COMMONWEALTH [of Massachusetts].”

“It’s nice having a bear about the house.”

“I’m not a criminal,” said Paddington, hotly. “I’m a bear!”

“I’ll never be like other people, but that’s alright because I’m a bear”

The bear puffed out its chest. “I’m a very rare sort of bear,” he replied importantly. “There aren’t many of us left where I come from.”

“Things are always happening to me. I’m that sort of bear.”

“Please look after this bear. Thank you.”

“On with the hunt! I will not rest. I will follow that bee to his honey nest!”

“Back through the forest! Stumble trip! Stumble trip! Stumble trip!”

“He yanked and pulled with both paws until POP! Off came the button- and off the mattress Corduroy toppled, bang into a tall floor lamp. Over it fell with a crash!

“A great bear lumbered by. He spied the mitten all plumped up. Not being one to be left out in the cold, he began to nose his way in.”

″ We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one”

“Back through the river! Splash splosh! Splash splosh! Splash splosh!”

“If a bear is smart, if a bear knows how, he goes on a honey hunt. Watch me now!”

″ ‘I like you the way you are, ’ she said. ′ but you’ll be more comfortable with your shoulder strap fastened.′ ”

“I smell a smell. Wrong kind of tree! Wrong kind of tree!”

“The bear family didn’t always live in the big tree house down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country.”

“One shiny wet nose! Two big furry ears! Two big goggly eyes! IT’S A BEAR!!!!”

“Quick! Back through the cave! Tiptoe! Tiptoe! Tiptoe!”

“I didn’t know I’d lost a button...tonight I’ll go and see if I can find it.”

″ ‘Why, here’s my button!’ he cried. And he tried to pick it up. But like all the other buttons on the mattress, it was tied down tight. ”

“Shut the door. Back upstairs. Into the bedroom. Into bed. Under the covers.”

“Corduroy is a bear who once lived in the toy departments of a big store. Day after day he waited with all the other animals and dolls for somebody to come along and take him home.”

“We’re not going on a bear hunt again.”

“Back through the snowstorm! Hooo wooo! Hooo wooo!”

“For the first time since the crash he was not thinking of himself, or his own life. Brian was wondering if the bear was as surprised as he to find another being in the berries.”

“Besides, he doesn’t look new. He’s lost the button to one of his shoulder straps.”

“When a bear is smart, when a bear is clever, he never gives up. And I won’t ever!”

″ You’re going to be my very own bear. Last night I counted what I’ve saved in my piggy bank and my mother said I could bring you home.”

“The bear, tickled by the mouse’s whiskers, gave an enormous sneeze. Aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-ca-chew! The force of the sneeze shot the mitten up into the sky, and scattered the animals in all directions.”

″ ‘MY TED!’ gasped the bear. ‘A BEAR!’ screamed Eddie. ‘A BOY!’ yelled the bear. ‘MY TEDDY!’ cried Eddie.”

“Now the Jolly Postman, Nearly done (so is the story), Came to a house where a party had begun. On the step Was a Bear with a bun.”

“Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker’s man, Bake me a cake as fast as you can, Carry it in on a beautiful plate And light up the candles- TODAY I AM EIGHT!”

“The least I can do for him is give his overalls a good drying”

“The Bear went over the mountains, the Bear went over the mountain, the Bear went over the mountain To see what he could see.”

“The bear sets out at the beginning of spring and finds fun around every corner, such as watching bunnies hop and smelling flowers.”

“Morris’s brother, Victor, got a hockey outfit. Morris’s sister, Rose, got a beauty kit. Morris’s other sister, Betty, got a chemistry set. And Morris got a bear.”

“Nobody wanted Morris’s bear. ‘Come,’ said Morris’s mother, ‘let’s make a hat for your bear.’ ”

“Anastasia’s father, Dr. Myron Krupnik, was a professor de literature and had read just about every book in the world, which may have been why he knew so much about warts. He had a bear the color of Hubbard squash, though not much hair in his head, and he wore glasses for astigmatism, as Anastasia did, although his were not quite as owly.”

“Let dogs delight to bark and bite. For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight: For ‘tis their nature to. But children you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each others eyes.”

“This is me under the tree, the bravest bear you ever did see. All alone so brave I’ve grown, I’m camping out on my very own.”

“He leans back in the water. It makes big waves.”

“Little Brown Bear holds on the sides of the tub.”

“Whenever the tiny bear was feeling frisky and ready for fun he flipped pebbles around as if they were boulders just to scare the wits out of the grasshoppers, the beetles and caterpillars. From a bug’s-eye view Bruce was a great big hairy-scary horrible brute of a beast.”

″ ‘And now, Tom, my boy,’ said the Squire, ‘remember you are going, at your own earnest request, to be chucked into this great school, like a young bear, with all your troubles before you -earlier than we should have sent you perhaps. If schools are what they were in my time, you’ll see a great many cruel blackguard things done, and hear a deal of foul, bad talk. But never fear. You tell the truth, keep a brave and kind heart, and never listen to or say anything you wouldn’t have your mother and sister hear, and you’ll never feel ashamed to come home, or we to see you.’ ”

“He’ll miss all the things he’s leaving behind, but at least he has Bear. He loves Bear more than anything else in the world—because Bear is his dog.

‘Mama, Mama’ calls Little Brown Bear. ‘I want to get up.”