Quotes About Pecking Order

#1. Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Erma Bombeck

#2. Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

Kamal Ahmed

#3. School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order - these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.

Howard Bloom

#5. Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

Peter McWilliams

#6. I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

Jerry Ferrara

#7. It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that.

Peter Jason

#8. We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

#9. Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ... "

Carl Andre

#11. A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.

Dan Fagin

#12. There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

George Clooney

#13. 'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

Dwight Yoakam

#14. Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure that you were first in the pecking order, you experienced an immense peace.

Karen Armstrong

#15. She's small, Valiant. You should ease up some on the sex."
Tammy and Valiant both shot him a glare. "Never," they said in unison.

Laurann Dohner

#16. We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there's a pecking order in that, don't you?

Lindsay J. Pryor

#17. Hammurabi's Code, for example, established a pecking order of superiors, commoners and slaves. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained. Despite

Yuval Noah Harari

#18. How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#19. See, we're intellectual equals. I am as smart as your mother, and she is as smart as me. This is a problem. There's no pecking order. A relationship is like anything else. It needs a leader and a follower.

Marjorie Celona

#20. Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

Peter Hook

#21. Every place had rules. I had to learn the power structure, the pecking order, the no-nos that would get me stabbed or rolled. I

Rick Riordan

#22. We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order ... we take what we know a little too seriously.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#23. There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

Steven Pressfield

#24. We rise to defy the word of God, you will not stop us this time!

G.S. Bains

#25. Earth is crammed with heavens.

Robert Browning

#26. Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

Michael Douglas

#27. And though you understand the pecking order and respect the judge - and even if the judge says "Great argument, Counselor Kaling, the court concurs" - you also just want to not have to plead your case all the time. I wanted to be the judge, jury, and executive producer. (See what I did there?)

Mindy Kaling

#28. Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Oprah Winfrey

#29. You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

Jean Harris

#30. As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

BD Wong