#beaver

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#child #comes #cruel #father #hope

Canada was built on dead beavers. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#built #canada #dead

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#bags #beaver #buffalo #chosen #coats

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 day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' ↗

— Barbara Billingsley

#am #be careful #beaver #because #better

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 woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job. ↗

— Barbara Billingsley

#cleaver #council #did #got #grandma

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 the Crees and the Beavers. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#beavers #better #between #bring #company

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#canada #maple #two

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beaver #god #king

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be. ↗

— Eric Jay Dolin

#astor #beaver #buffalo #fur #fur-trade

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers. ↗

— Mike Todd

#better #corps #engineers #than #work