Top 100 Quotes About Chickens
#1. I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.
Catherynne M Valente
#4. The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones
#5. And if we were meant only to labor, why give us minds, why give us desires? Why can we not be as cattle in the field, or chickens in their coops?
Robert Jackson Bennett
#6. 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
#7. There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
Annie Dillard
#8. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#9. This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.
Danielle Paige
#10. She had a knack for relieving the tension in a room by pretending my rudeness away with cooking. Many, many chickens had given up their lives to cover my conversationalist shortcomings.
Molly Harper
#11. Cole stood in a living room of chicken hell. Wallpaper with chickens on it. Chicken clock. Chicken pillows. Framed plates with chickens on it.
Alessandra Torre
#12. U.S. policies restrict feeding cow tissue directly to other cows, but still allow cows to be fed to other animals (like chickens) and the waste from the chickens to be fed back to the cows.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. Do not refuse a wing to the persons who gave you the whole chicken.
Ralph Siu
#14. So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.
Dakota Cassidy
#15. My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.
Philip Treacy
#16. You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic, I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
#17. The chickens don't remember that their wings were clipped...They just can't fly anymore, and they don't remember why or even that they once could."
-a bit of conversation between Ginny and her grandmother in The Memory of Flight
Debra Bowling
#19. The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw them a few bread crumbs. They will then follow you forever.
Joseph Stalin
#20. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.
Elizabeth Enright
#21. The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.
Elizabeth Wein
#22. There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
Thom Yorke
#23. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
Philip Roth
#24. Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
Peter V. Brett
#25. Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or, to abandon euphemism, killing chickens.
Michael Pollan
#26. One time I tried to marry a chicken.
Calum Hood
#27. Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.
Nora Ephron
#28. Lord Edward took a scientific interest in the sexual activities of axolotls and chickens, guinea pigs and frogs; but any reference to the corresponding activities of humans made him painfully uncomfortable.
Aldous Huxley
#29. Movies. Drinks. Headless chickens. You know, girl stuff.
Jeaniene Frost
#30. We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
#31. I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens ... a helpful skill in Congress.
Chellie Pingree
#32. Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#33. Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said.
Roald Dahl
#34. Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
Ingrid Newkirk
#35. A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
Hector Hugh Munro
#36. It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
Warren E. Burger
#37. When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
Jung Chang
#38. My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens ... We roamed the countryside.
William Moseley
#39. When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. The coops were finished. They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in deep thought, as who should say: "Now what in the world have we struck here?" But they were coops, within the meaning of the act, and we induced the hens to become tenants.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.
Cameron Diaz
#42. Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.
Susan Orlean
#43. Just as a snowflake
went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the
pumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,
and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, my
father's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.
Katherine Dunn
#44. Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build up more in the muscles of chickens and turkeys than in those of other animals.
Michael Greger
#45. Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross roads.
Isaac Newton
#46. I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.
Ryan North
#47. I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.
Emilio Estevez
#49. It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.
Scott Michael Foster
#50. There are chickens, there are eggs, there are deaf girls singing karaoke. Nothing makes sense anymore.
Paul Neilan
#51. Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish
Robin Cook
#52. Alis's lips thinned, but she said, The next time that fool Lucien gives you advice on how to trap the Suriel, you come to me. Dead chickens, my sagging ass. All you needed to do was offer it a new robe, and it would have groveled at your feet.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
Bill Vaughan
#54. One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.
Katie McGrath
#55. I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'
Dan Barber
#56. People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#57. Chickens are annoying. Is that why people eat them? My sister is annoying, but nobody eats her.
Yvonne Tasker
#58. Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.
Shalom Auslander
#59. Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Miguel De Cervantes
#60. I can't eat chicken and look at strippers at the same time.
Jerry Seinfeld
#61. Disclaimer: No chickens were harmed (or pleasured) in the making of this story.
Jason Werbeloff
#62. To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.
Lisa See
#64. I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!
Sarah Dessen
#65. 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
#66. Chickens, for example, were not people. You looked into a chicken's eyes and you saw the back of the chicken's eyeball.
T. Kingfisher
#67. On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.
John Nettles
#68. The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.
Scott Glenn
#69. If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.
Roger Clemens
#70. One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a system where you can vote for the fox or the wolf, but there's no little box that endorses the chickens. Our time will come, you can be sure of that.
Stuart Wilde
#71. Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.
Ingrid Newkirk
#72. The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the
farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af-
ter another - prayers, potions, oaths - until all of the chickens are dead.
"Too bad," says the priest, "I had so many other good ideas.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#73. I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck's cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.
Jennifer S. Alderson
#74. I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E.B. White
#75. I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.
Linda Thompson
#76. Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.
Max Barry
#78. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
William Shakespeare
#79. Does workman's comp cover paper cuts?" "Do chickens lay snowballs?
Darynda Jones
#80. The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
David Mamet
#81. more than 25 billion chickens. And they are all over the globe. The domesticated chicken is the most widespread fowl ever. Following Homo sapiens, domesticated
Yuval Noah Harari
#82. Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern broiler is typically killed at around six weeks. Their daily growth rate has increased roughly 400 percent.)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#83. Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.
Edward Sanchez
#84. - Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.
Ellen Datlow
#85. the more familiar a face, letter, number, sound, flavor, brand, or Chinese character becomes, the more we like it. It's true across different cultures and species; even baby chickens prefer the familiar.
Adam M. Grant
#86. I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
Salma Hayek
#87. I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.
Paul McCartney
#88. She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Jonathan Swift
#89. Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chickens or lambs waiting for eagles.
Rick Bass
#90. So what are you going to do with the pies?" Mum asked.
"My bike is getting fixed today it's kind of a payment, a little thank you."
"How very Dr Quinn Medicine Woman of you; sure they don't want to trade for eggs and chickens?" Dad laughed.
C.J. Duggan
#91. Got a buddy in the NOPD who says there's a rumor you're with some private agency. Who? (Brady)
And I slice open chickens at midnight to sacrifice to the great gods of Santeria. (Terri)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
Pamela Anderson
#93. What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
Walter Kirn
#94. I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.
Ricky Williams
#95. 4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
#96. Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.
Kirby Larson
#97. If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?
George Carlin
#98. The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
Jack Vance
#99. But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
Peter Singer
#100. 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
