Chickens Come Home To Roost Quotes

#1. Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Charles W. Chesnutt

#2. By Any Means Necessary"; "The Chickens Come Home To Roost".

Malcolm X

#3. Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Aesop

#4. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Susanna Moodie

#5. Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#6. I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

Bernie Worrell

#8. Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

Jack Nicholson

#11. Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Virginia Woolf

#12. I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done.

Mercedes McCambridge

#13. Terrorism is about Culture, not Religion.

A.E. Sawan

#14. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Jeremiah Wright

#15. Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

Malcolm X

#16. The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

Douglas MacArthur

#17. Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

Cesar Chavez

#18. The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

Nikki Giovanni

#19. One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

David Stockman

#20. And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Paul Krugman