Beavers Quotes

• The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eagles, Dams, May

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• Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

  Mike Todd

  Engineers

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• Canada was built on dead beavers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Canada, Built

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• Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

  John Naisbitt

  Lawyer, Mainstream, Damn

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• The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

  Lee Iacocca

  Top Management, People, Guy

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• The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine

  Charles Hard Townes

  Inspirational, Ideas, Rabbits

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• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bags

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• A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a 'Leave it to Beaver' type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

  Jake Roberts

  Children, Father, Love You

  Interview with Jon Robinson, December 18, 2003.

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• Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

  Barbara Billingsley

  Dream, Thinking, Wish

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Numbers, Dams, Lawyer

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  Samuel de Champlain

  Hunting, Engagement, Might

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• The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Peace, Successful, Names

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.4, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

  Barbara Billingsley

  Jobs, Grandma, Home

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• Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

  Camille Paglia

  Army, College, Records

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• The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Block, Science, Water

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• A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

  Ann Zwinger

  Fall, Cutting, Engineering

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.192, Big Earth Publishing

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• If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Silly, Knees, Narnia

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

  Billy Collins

  Swans, Giving, Ponds

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• Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.

  Norton Juster

  Eight, Two, Feet

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.175, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Army, Thinking, Rivers

  Patrick F. McManus (2011). “The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

  Si Robertson

  Work, Night, Hunting

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• Save a tree, eat a beaver.

  Zac Hanson

  Tree

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• I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

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• Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

  Wallace Stegner

  Long, Teeth, Locks

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.37, Penguin

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• Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Years, House

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.289

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