Chicken Yard Quotes

#1. There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Joyce Meyer

#2. There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.

Amy Jarecki

#4. When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.

Margaret Geller

#5. 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

#6. It's a labour of love. And you are both the labour and the love.

David Hieatt

#7. We all have a different answer to what defines our happiness and fulfillment, but for all of us it begins with inner peace. Without inner peace, happiness and fulfillment is hard to reach.

Ron Baratono

#8. This was it. The beginning of the blasted end.

Fisher Amelie

#9. No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

Jonathan Kozol

#10. Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

Jeffrey Brown

#11. I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

Jason Aldean

#12. Yes, word had gotten around about my amusing little defeathering trick (note: made the chicken naked). Apparently we couldn't just eat the poor thing and be done with it. Apparently we had to knit cunning lil' sweaters for it so it could squawk around the yard, feeling fancy.

Cate Tiernan

#13. It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

Sheila Ballantyne

#14. I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.

Paul Haggis

#15. If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Lars Von Trier

#16. That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.

Kathryn Stockett

#17. Madeline Reynolds

Natasha Lowe

#18. My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Mohsin Hamid

#19. Red Carpet Events:Sitting on the couch and watching people who actually chase their goals and dreams; criticizing what they're wearing ... and wondering why we're depressed.

Steve Maraboli