Chicken And The Egg Quotes

#1. This is the ultimate chicken and the egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles ... The egg: We need to eliminate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously.

Dan Shapiro

#3. (Of course, there really is no chicken and egg problem; certainly there were eggs long before there were chickens.)

Lee Smolin

#4. The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Robin Morgan

#5. In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Samuel Beckett

#6. Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

Judy Gold

#7. When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and give birth to a chicken or another egg. It was something we dared together. I avoided eggs for years, but now they're my favourite food.

Erin O'Connor

#8. I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.

Sasha Cohen

#9. For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

Frank Black

#10. Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

David Cameron

#11. It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Craig Johnston

#12. it was a chicken-and-egg conundrum: were they animals because they were in jail . . . or were they in jail because they were animals?

Jodi Picoult

#13. I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.

Rain

#14. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasgow

#15. Which the Chicken and Which the Egg?
He drinks because she scolds, he thinks;
She thinks she scolds because he drinks;
And nether will admit what's true,
That he's a sot and she's a shrew.

Ogden Nash

#16. There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element here: does someone gravitate to the role of Eddie van Halen because he shares similar personality traits or did portraying Eddie Van Halen give rise to those qualities?

Steven Kurutz

#17. She told me that she liked white people but didn't have any close white friends and asked if I was interested in cross-pollinating. I told her we would see how things went but not to put the chicken wing before the egg. We grew to be fast friends, and a couple

Chelsea Handler

#18. The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

Abraham Maslow

#19. Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#20. My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.

Nate Holland

#21. It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Roz Chast

#22. What came first the chicken or the egg?
The chicken. That is how it got knocked up in the first place.

Teresa Mummert

#23. Are you all right?'
I nodded my damn chicken head and prayed prayed like the world and all the victims of war, famine, and disease counted on it. God ... please dont let me lay an egg. Not now

Cecy Robson

#24. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.

Lance Berkman

#25. Two platters of cashew chicken double delight, egg rolls, lumpia dogs, dessert, coffee" - she paused - "and this.

William Bernhardt

#26. A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

Julius Nyerere

#27. Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

John Updike

#28. I've seen the future all my life,' she says. 'It tends to work as a paradox, in my experience. You find out something is going to happen, and then you do it because you know that's what happens. It's a chicken-or-the-egg scenario.

Cynthia Hand

#29. What was it like out there? Away from the city?"

"Quiet," Gib chuckled. "My neighbor once had a chicken lay an egg that hatched two chicks. That was big news for a year.

Shiriluna Nott

#30. A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.

Michael Moss

#32. I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Justina Chen

#33. An egg is a thing that must be careful. That's why the chicken is the egg's disguise. The chicken exists so that the egg can traverse the ages. That's what a mother is for.

Clarice Lispector

#34. Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?
Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

Toba Beta

#35. It no longer mattered if it was the chicken or the egg; it was quite simply a nest from which both beautiful and damaged things came.

Tessie Regan

#36. Is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it, or does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#37. We are - or were - Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beliefs of a people. But that which you draw power from, you are also powerless before ... A people believe in a god ... and the god tells them what to believe.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#38. As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers.

Tim Gilmore

#39. The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

Chris Onstad

#40. I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

Sprague Grayden

#41. In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

Mao Zedong

#42. God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.

Rachel Caine

#43. Time is like an egg and life is like a chicken that lays the egg.

Murray Schisgal

#44. You can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it - you offer him something he would rather have.

Isaac Asimov

#45. My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?

Shirley Temple

#46. Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#47. I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

Jack LaLanne

#48. Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control ... I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

Lauren Alaina

#49. A chicken is the egg's way of making more eggs.

Robert Anton Wilson

#50. The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. The chicken is only an egg's way for making another egg.

Richard Dawkins

#52. I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.

Harper Lee