Teddy Bear Quotations

Following are some of our favorite Teddy bear-related quotations. If you have one you'd like to suggest, please send us a message and let us know!

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the following:


"It is astonishing, really, how many thoroughly mature, well-adjusted grown-ups harbor a Teddy bear – which is perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and well-adjusted."
– Joseph Lempa


"The world is divided into two nations: those with Teddy bears, those without. Each thinks the other is odd."
– Jenny De Vries


"There's just something about a Teddy bear that's impossible to explain. When you hold one in your arms, you get a feeling of love, comfort and security. It's almost supernatural."
– James Ownby


"My Teddy was there when I had no friends to play with, no one to talk to, no one to share my little woes or my big joys. He looked constant and was constant. He never aged, no matter how tattered he became. His smell was the smell of my years as a boy, and he alone knew everything. Now, when I see him on the shelf, he is like my flesh and my soul – older, worn, but still full of happiness."
– Robert Kunciov


"Long before I grew up, my Teddy bear taught me what love really meant: being there when you're needed."
– Jim Nelson


"A Teddy bear's virtue is that he cannot love himself... only others."
– Ted Menten


"A bear knows all your secrets – and keeps them."
– Rosanne Brown


"A bedroom without a Teddy is like a face without a smile."
– Gil Davies


"A Teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved – and therefore he lives."
– Pat Brown


"You really don't have to be young to find a friend in a Teddy bear."
– Rachel Newman


"Anyone who has looked a Teddy bear in the face will recognize the friendly twinkle in his knowing look."
– Harold Nadolny


"Whoever said "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" would retract that statement after seeing the sparkle in a Teddy's eyes."
– Lana T. Zeis


"A bear grows more alive with age. No one with an ounce of sensitivity could ever consign a bear to the dustbin."
– Johnnie Hague


"There's no bear like an old bear."
– Samantha Armstrong


"Bears are just about the only toy that can lose just about everything and still maintain their dignity and worth."
– Samantha Armstrong


"A Teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is outgrown."
– Pat Brown


"A bear remains a bear – even when most of him has fallen off or worn away."
– Charlotte Gray



"All bears merit a dignified old age."
– Peter Gray



"Once a bear has been loved by a human being, its expression is forever marked."
– Jama Kim Rattigan


"Now that I'm all grown up, I can buy any old Teddy bear I want – except the old Teddy bear I want."
– William Sternman


"One never quite gets over a lost bear."
– Jane Swan


Shakespeare pre-dated the Teddy bear, but he captured the companionship and bond we share with our bears when he wrote:

"He was my friend, faithful, and just to me...."
– William Shakespeare