Douglas Coupland

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

Canadian Author

Adam Scott

I like having a beard. What's funny is when you shave a beard, you realize how freezing cold your face is! The primary purpose evolution-wise is to keep you warm, to grow hair on your face. You shave it off, and your face is freezing for a few days.

American Actor

Matisyahu

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

American Musician

Anthony LaPaglia

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.

Orson Welles

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Jase Robertson

My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

American Celebrity

Donal Logue

Like most things in life, the beard always comes first. And it sends out some kind of pheromonal call to the universe that brings the roles appropriate to it.

Canadian Actor

Rick Ross

For anybody that grow a beard or have hair on their face, I welcome you to the beard game. We're all family. I encourage that. I encourage beards.

Chris Stapleton

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

Ram Charan

Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

Indian Actor

Beard usually refers to men; women with facial hair use different terms.

Gender Specific

Beards can signify maturity, wisdom, or religious belief in different cultures.

Cultural Significance

Sometimes 'beard' is used metaphorically to suggest someone is hiding something.

Not Always Literal

As a verb, 'beard' is rarely about facial hair but about confronting boldly.

Figurative Use

When someone 'beards' another, it implies a fearless attitude.

Requires Bravery

The phrase originates from tales where a man dared to grab a lion by the beard.

Historical Reference

Used to describe someone posing as a partner, concealing the other's true nature.

Hidden Relationships

Using 'beard' in this context can be sensitive, so use it with understanding.

Sensitive Topic

This meaning is contemporary and might not be understood in historical contexts.

Modern Slang

 bearded seal paw, these are all animals that they have hunted during the migration when whales come by their village. And for me it's telling. Finally I got something. We return back, he's going to give a good portion to the dogs because the dogs help the Inuits hunting and they always split the result of the hunt.

We Are What We Eat:...

 they're actually shaving foam shaving cream is more like face cream and that deserves its own episode as does shave gel and shave soap but today is all about this guy and the truth is many of you could probably shave your face with just water you would though have to soak your beard hair for a good two minutes

Shaving Foam PIPE...

 beard community work via conservation they all some form of symbiotic relationship they all flow into each other if one is not there we're not able to function properly we work as a team we don't work in isolation we wake as a team that's the most important thing

How Wildlife Is Bouncing...

 I see it. There it is. Now you can shave your beard. I can shave, I can shave now. One of the things that is peculiar to this place is that there are just so many vultures around. But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime

Chasing the Rare Snow...

 You're quite impatient with the rest of humanity, in fact. So when you get up to immigration with your shirt collar out and a day's growth of beard, and you have very little patience, and the immigration officer looked at my passport

A lyrical bridge between...

 lawyer this guy with a very long beard and a picket line protest singing band and we serve papers to our high school we said we're not going to take this then just to continue the trend that week in my high school graduation speech

We must reignite dream...

 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation

"All the World's a...

 In fact, species like the mountain-dwelling bearded vulture have stomachs so acidic, they can digest most bones in just 24 hours. This adaptation helps smaller vultures supplement their diet with dung,

Vultures: The...

 lecture hall, wax museum, theater, and freak show that was known for its eclectic residents, such as bears, elephants, acrobats, giants, Siamese twins, a Fiji mermaid, and a bearded lady,

Why do we have museums?...

 looking like she had a strong grip. So -- oh, there's another shot of my beard. I will say it was an amazing year because it really was life changing, and incredibly challenging.

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