Chickens Come Home To Roost Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Douglas MacArthur

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

Malcolm X

#7. 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

#8. Terrorism is about Culture, not Religion.

A.E. Sawan

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

Mercedes McCambridge

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

Susanna Moodie

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

Charles W. Chesnutt

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

Malcolm X

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

Virginia Woolf

#14. 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

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

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. 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

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

Aesop

#19. 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

#20. 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