Quotes About Eggs And Chickens

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Robin Morgan

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

Bobby Robson

#8. My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Joel McCrea

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The yellowy things on the tray were probably eggs, but they looked like they came pre-scrambled from alien chickens.

Roberta Pearce

#12. Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

Brian Chippendale

#13. Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.

Bobby Robson

#14. Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
any eggs in the basket

Bobby Robson

#16. I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.

Martha Stewart

#17. Johnny: "Mom I can't eat eggs." Mom: "Why not?" Johnny: "Because chickens don't wipe their butts after they lay eggs!" ***

Various

#18. Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

John Updike

#19. Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

David Cameron

#20. 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

#21. We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they always presented us with eggs, which I thought was very generous of them, considering the heat. I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered.

Victoria Twead

#22. (Of course, there really is no chicken and egg problem; certainly there were eggs long before there were chickens.)

Lee Smolin

#23. In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

Mao Zedong

#24. I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Victor Borge

#25. I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#26. Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

Howard G. Hendricks

#27. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

William Shakespeare

#28. Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Max Barry

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. There are chickens, there are eggs, there are deaf girls singing karaoke. Nothing makes sense anymore.

Paul Neilan

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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