Grizzlies Quotes

• I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

  Jeremy Lin

  Workout, Player, Spurs

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

  Aldo Leopold

  Alaska, Heaven, May

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.619, Library of America

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• If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Bears, Ifs

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• If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Territory, Facts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Animal, Play, Feet

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• There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Horse, Fear, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It was so much fun to have my very first TV (performance) be the holy grail of comedy, in my opinion. I was the guy from CHiPs and then I was Grizzly Adams. It was hysterical. We got to make out. It was really crazy, fun television.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Fun, Crazy, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.

  Fred Bear

  Teenage, Soul, Thrill

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• We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Grizzly Bears, Deer

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

  Max Lucado

  Hurt, Hair, Looks

  Max Lucado (2014). “One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional”, p.128, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

  Laura Lee

  Years, People, Grizzly Bears

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• I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

  Julia Kent

  Men, Saws, Happens

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

  Joel Edgerton

  Rocks, Tennis, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those Grizzlies are more like pandas.

  Charles Barkley

  Pandas

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• I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Notebook, Father

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• Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

  Don Kardong

  People, Grizzly Bears, Benefits

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• There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.

  Travis Morrison

  Crazy, Rocks, Indie Rock

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

  Chuck Eddy

  Yelling, Guy, Fans

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.325, Duke University Press

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• Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

  Lee Trevino

  Beard

  "Lee Trevino wishes he would have never done his ‘Happy Gilmore’ cameo" by Shane Bacon, sports.yahoo.com. May 22, 2013.

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• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  Edward Abbey

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Cubs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.

  P. C. Cast

  Grandpa, Pissed Off, Giants

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Divine by Blood”, p.135, LUNA

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• I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wrath, Shame, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.

  John Green

  Laughing, Etc, Bears

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.59, Penguin

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• We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

  John Green

  Grizzly Bears, Strategy, Hog

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.156, Penguin

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