European Brown Bear

Famous quotes containing the words european, brown and/or bear:

    Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    They won’t come to learn, only to stare. I’ll be a freak in a sideshow: Lazarus the Second! Fifty cents to look, a dollar to touch.
    —Karl Brown (1897–1990)

    The world has room to make a bear feel free;
    The universe seems cramped to you and me.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)