The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost Quotes

#1. I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

Jack Nicholson

#2. Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

Malcolm X

#3. History is always a grand fantasy ... To reconstruct is to invent.

Eca De Queiros

#4. Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#5. Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Aesop

#6. Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. By Any Means Necessary"; "The Chickens Come Home To Roost".

Malcolm X

#8. Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Charles W. Chesnutt

#9. The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.

John Henry Wigmore

#10. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Susanna Moodie

#11. Quantum mechanics - the physics of our world - requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

Brian Greene

#12. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Jeremiah Wright

#13. The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

Douglas MacArthur

#14. The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#15. I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

Cassandra Clare

#16. 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

#17. Perhaps the world would never be perfect, perhaps some things would never be right, but maybe she stood a chance of finding her own sort of peace and freedom.

Sarah J. Maas

#18. 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

#19. You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

Neko Case

#20. My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

Elena Kagan

#21. Those who have wisdom have all:
Fools with all have nothing.

Thiruvalluvar

#22. 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