Michael Bond Quotes

If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another.

All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

Savage bears agree with one another.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Bears need people. People need bears.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.

If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

Maybe I’ll keep you.” Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis’s back with his sword. “It’d be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks.” “I have a trick for you,” said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.