Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“I cut my teeth as the black raccoon—
For implements of battle.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Polite conversation is rarely either.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)