Teddy Quotes - Page 7

• Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

  Robbie Williams

  Men, Coins, Paper

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• Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ideas, Perfect, News

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• Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

  Gale Norton

  Hunting, America, Dating

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• When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Children, Reading, Giving

  J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.32, Vintage

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• Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly and carried a big stick; Donald Trump speaks loudly and carries a big shtick.

  Michael R. Burch

  Sticks, Speak, Bigs

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• Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Father, Team

  Tom Verducci (2011). “Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci”, p.201, Time Home Entertainment

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• Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn’t share us well. (Geary) Does this mean I’ll have to fight him? (Arik) You’d never win. Mr. Cuddles cheats. You think he’s just a pushover teddy bear, but he’s vicious, I tell you. Vicious. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jealous, Mean, Fighting

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Records, Poultry

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• 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.

  John Terry

  School, Bed, Littles

  "Who do you like best, José, Avram or Big Phil?". Interview with John Terry, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, War, Philosophical

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.16, Seven Stories Press

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• The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Cells, Phones, Bears

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• Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

  Drew Carey

  Years, Labels, Libertarian

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• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cancer, Scary, Dying

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• We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

  George Will

  Country, Years, Ideas

  "Rep. Scalise talks GOP agenda, border crisis; Benjamin Netanyahu and Hanan Ashrawi on conflict in Gaza". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 27, 2014.

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• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  J. D. Salinger

  God, Children, Drinking

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• Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought then. The portrait was a weapon, too. Of seduction. In it Strider was utterly naked and whisking through the cloads like an avenging angel. He was holding a teddy bear in one hand and a stream of pink ribbons in the other. Anya had given him the nearly life-size monstrasity as a joke. But the joke was on her. He loved the thing.

  Gena Showalter

  Wall, Angel, Hands

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• You know, most girls sleep with a teddy bear or an extra pillow. But I gotta say, that's kinda hot.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Sleep, Hot

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.88, Harlequin

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• Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.

  Colson Whitehead

  Writing, Kids, Class

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