Beavers Quotes

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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of… — Camille Paglia
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up. — John Naisbitt
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one… — Barbara Billingsley
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council… — Barbara Billingsley
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not… — C.S. Lewis
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between… — Ernest Thompson Seton
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a… — Patrick F. McManus
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver'… — Sissy Spacek
The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers. — Mike Todd
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. — Dave Barry
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of… — Charles Hard Townes
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine… — David Sobel
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or… — Robert Ardrey
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary… — Henry David Thoreau
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. — Douglas William Jerrold
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to… — Lee Iacocca
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. — Donald Rumsfeld
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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