Bear Quotes

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Bear patiently with a rival.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

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.

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

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

We know that Libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. And there are many courageous Libyans who bear the scars of that battle.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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