Top 100 Quotes About Chickens
#1. Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)
Candida Martinelli
#2. I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?
Renita D'Silva
#3. In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon would be formidable.
Charles Wheelan
#4. Sadly, although the source of much enjoyment, Ginger the pig progressed from hunting and killing chickens to lambs and, after a stab at my mother's ankles, was banished to the freezer before she developed a taste for small children.
Bill Bryson
#5. I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
Tony Curtis
#6. I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
#7. Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone's nerves, but no one gave in. "The whole ranch became centered on the job," Howard said. "Even the pigs quit grunting at him and the chickens kept out of his way.
Laura Hillenbrand
#9. It was a large, neatly kept cottage, with a well-tended yard full of chickens. Hollyhocks grew along the side, in shades of red and violet, unless magic had gotten into them again, in which case they had a tendency to go plaid.
T. Kingfisher
#10. Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
Bryan Shelton
#13. [Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato ... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.
Plato
#14. If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
#15. The way I'd put it," said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.
Mark Lawrence
#17. Enoch's jaw fell open. "Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?!" he said. "Only when they get excited," said Addison. "Most of their eggs are quite safe - and delicious! But it was the exploding ones that earned them their rather unkind name: Armageddon chickens.
Ransom Riggs
#18. I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.
Nick Frost
#19. If you want to fulfil your dreams, you don't walk with chickens you soar with eagles.
Euginia Herlihy
#20. Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.
Robert Kiyosaki
#21. Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.
Robert Kiyosaki
#22. I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
Eartha Kitt
#23. These resemble no chicken fingers I've ever seen, lass. And I saw a fair amount of chickens in my day. There was this wench in the stables with the most remarkable . . . well, never mind that. You must grow fowl considerably larger now. I shudder to ponder the size of their beaks.
Karen Marie Moning
#24. While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
Rita Mae Brown
#25. He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed - nothing, not one thing on God's earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle - they all wanted to live.
Gary Paulsen
#26. Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.
Rickey Henderson
#27. You see that movie, Chicken Run, where the chickens gang up together and escape from the farm?
Charlie Higson
#28. And with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.
Shannon Hale
#29. I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.
Shimon Peres
#32. I hunt chickens , men hunt me,All the chickens are just alike,and all the men are just alike.and in consequence, i am little bored,but if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#33. After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
George Nakashima
#34. If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Ted Nugent
#36. I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.
Paul O'Grady
#37. With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#38. There's a character I played in 'Love in a Cold Climate' - very like my mother. I asked if I could wear a man's shoes and hat to feed the chickens: all things from her. In fact, every part I play has got an enormous amount of her in it.
Celia Imrie
#39. If a flock of chickens is without water on a hot day, and all you have to do to prevent them from dying slowly and painfully is turn on a tap, you ought to turn it on. If to do so you have to walk a few extra steps in shoes that pinch your little toe, you ought to walk those few extra steps.
Peter Singer
#40. Well, then, Otter, of course I don't like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don't see chickens standing outside of maternity wards waiting to get our babies to make their Bundt cake, do you?
T.J. Klune
#41. When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.
Isabella Rossellini
#42. The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
P.T. Barnum
#43. One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.
Bret McKenzie
#44. I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.
Pamela Anderson
#45. 'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.
Amy Robach
#46. Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
Thom Yorke
#47. It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.
Paul Smith
#49. If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.
Bobby Robson
#50. The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.
Rebecca Solnit
#51. Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
Russell Simmons
#52. Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either," Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic.
Terry Goodkind
#53. The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
Joel Salatin
#54. Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
#55. By Any Means Necessary"; "The Chickens Come Home To Roost".
Malcolm X
#56. We have chickens! And ostriches - they're like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur - that's like a really huge chicken, with teeth - but for architectural reasons we can't let it roam free just yet.
Charles Stross
#57. I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.
Angela Lindvall
#58. If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
Solomon Burke
#59. As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.
Serinda Swan
#61. An old hen is worth 40 chickens. ~ Hebe Jones
Julia Stuart
#62. To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.
Michael Keaton
#63. Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That's how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all the things people said without knowing and then believed, since they heard it with their own ears, from their own lips, each word.
Louise Erdrich
#64. Many of the presidents have sworn themselves in to similarly foolish titles: Governor of Cow Pastures, Commanding General of Standing Chickens.
Karen Russell
#65. My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
Joel McCrea
#66. Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice.
Kerry Greenwood
#67. I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.
Noel Coward
#68. My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment ... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill Vaughan
#69. In a perfect
world I would be taller, you would be alive,
and chickens could cross the road without
being the subject of a joke.
Suzanne Wrightt
#70. I was an "Omnivore." Like a lot of people, I didn't know any better. Then I read a couple of books. One of them was called How Chickens Are Raped Before You Eat Them. Another was called Hotdogs and Fingertips. I also read The Cow Feces Dilemma as well as Barf, STDs and Veal.
Demetri Martin
#71. You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers ... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!
Jeff Foxworthy
#72. So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.
Mark Forsyth
#73. Oddly, one of the first thoughts that popped into Michael's mind was why didn't these animals mind cooking their friends? Though maybe geese and chickens weren't on the same social level.
James Dashner
#74. The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.
Harry Markopolos
#75. You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.
Jodi Thomas
#76. The chickens have come home to roast.
Jane Ace
#77. When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.
Kylie Jenner
#78. Man ordering at Butera's deli/prepared-foods counter: "Hey, give me one of them chickens what spins around.
David Sedaris
#79. People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
Karl Pilkington
#80. Blindly trusting financial experts is like trusting your chickens to Mr. Fox.
Robert Rolih
#81. ... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.
Susan Merrill Squier
#82. If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly.
Andy Andrews
#83. Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.
Christian McKay
#84. The yellowy things on the tray were probably eggs, but they looked like they came pre-scrambled from alien chickens.
Roberta Pearce
#85. The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.
Anthony Fauci
#86. Johnny: "Mom I can't eat eggs." Mom: "Why not?" Johnny: "Because chickens don't wipe their butts after they lay eggs!" ***
Various
#87. Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.
Eddie Izzard
#88. Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.
Michael Pollan
#89. There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
Anne-Marie Duff
#90. Of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the
Charles Dickens
#91. We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.
Emanuel Celler
#92. Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness.
Anonymous
#93. Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,
Charles Dickens
#94. I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.
Mary Margaret O'Hara
#95. I've got ten thousand ducks quacking and waddling, with one deluded chicken that thinks it's a duck in the middle. I think it's a flock of ducks; Cam thinks it's a malign conspiracy of chickens.
John Barnes
#96. In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
Michael Pollan
#97. To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish what was done to wild cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks thousands of years ago: we are confining them in holding pens.
Sharon Gannon
#98. As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
Joyce Carol Oates
#99. I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
Dave
#100. The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.
Evo Morales
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