Top 21 Mother Hen Quotes
#1. We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her, home is the only place she should be
Then we complain that she's too
unworldly to be our friend
John Lennon
#2. Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out.
"Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.
Julie Garwood
#3. Wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.
David Whyte
#4. You're acting like a mother hen." Which I love. "Cluck, cluck," he deadpans
Kristen Callihan
#5. I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Diane Lane
#6. When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.
Charlotte Knobloch
#7. Who knew that the Wyr warlord's real animal form was a mother hen?
Thea Harrison
#8. My sister." Lanthe rolled her eyes. "For someone so cool, she's turned into a mother hen. Weird.
Kresley Cole
#9. You're stifling me brother! Can I not have a moment to myself? I swear it wouldn't surprise me to find you sitting atop me one day as I do my morning business in the privy, like some great mother hen!" Elf
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.
Nathan Englander
#11. People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
Neil Gaiman
#12. Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
#14. I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#15. I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.
George Eads
#17. He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men - because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.
Rainbow Rowell
#18. Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellraiser.
Thomas Pynchon
#19. When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.
Michael Dirda
#20. Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.
H. Rider Haggard
#21. The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
A.C. Grayling
