Grizzly Bears Quotes

• 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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• Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.

  Craig Childs

  Hockey, Animal, Eight

  Craig Childs (1997). “Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild”, Sasquatch Books

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• If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going, / Or what he is doing; / For if you ever, ever dare / To stop a grizzly bear, / You will never meet another grizzly bear.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Grizzlies, Dare, Verses

  Mary Hunter Austin (1928). “The children sing in the far West”

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• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

  Edward Abbey

  Views, People, Important

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

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

  Laura Lee

  Years, People, Facts

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• By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Acting, Not Afraid, Ifs

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Men, Honey, Salmon

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

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Deer, Grizzlies

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• Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

  Don Kardong

  People, Benefits, Grizzlies

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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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• I am still passionate about Grizzly bears as well as the rest of the animal kingdom and I understand now how precious people are that stand for all of the animal kingdom. I would like to work extensively with the animals as well as bringing forth awareness to those on earth that have similar passions for animals as I had.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Passion, Animal, People

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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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• You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry, and you're surrounded by grizzly bears. And it's - it's a very, very thrilling, peculiar situation. Every sound that you hear in the night, you wonder is this a grizzly bear coming to tear into my tent?

  David Quammen

  Night, Yellowstone, Tears

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.

  David Quammen

  Taken, Independent, Successful

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• I would encourage my children to protect themselves if there's any sort of physical abuse against them. I would definitely go speak to the perpetrator, and if the perpetrator was a child, I'd speak to their parents. But I ... Oh my God, I don't know what I'd do if I was privy to watching my kids being bullied! I would do what any parent would, I'd be like a grizzly bear protecting his cubs.

  Rib Hillis

  Children, Kids, Parent

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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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• 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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• 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

  Strategy, Grizzlies, Hog

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

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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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• 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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• Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Home, Phones

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

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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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