Little Red Hen Quotes

#1. Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. Think about a moment, a little centimeter of time you'd happily exist in forever, if time could be laid out along the spine of a ruler. Maybe it haunts you in that blue inch of half consciousness just before you're fully awake.

Kate Ellison

#5. Pigpen hooks his foot around the metal folding chair Eli sat in weeks before and it scrapes against the tiles.

Katie McGarry

#6. I'm very passionate in life, and I'm very determined.

Julie Gonzalo

#7. A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

Marianne Boruch

#8. In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#9. I was a class clown.

Robert Klein

#10. Who cares what time you wake up and go to bed? What matters most is what you do with your life in between.

J.R. Rim

#11. I think I'm chronically exhausted.

Hillary Clinton

#12. I'm sorry I don't have brilliant reasons for beginning a novel. As you go along, you make up reasons to do what you want. There's an open space. Enter it.

Natalie Goldberg

#13. My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

#14. after a man reaches ninety-five and hasn't died yet, the people around him become lulled into believing that he never will.

Hope Jahren

#15. No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Ernest Hemingway,