Chickens Quotes

• Don't count your chickens before they egg.

  Ross O'Donovan

  Eggs, Fables, Hatching

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• What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Food, Vegetarianism, Cooking

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• Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

  Star Jones

  Nice, Use, Size

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• Am I eating chicken or tuna?

  Jessica Simpson

  Ice Cream, Tuna, Eating

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• I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

  Todd Barry

  Thanksgiving, Chicken Nuggets, Fingers

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• All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

  Shannen Doherty

  Dog, Night, Ice Cream

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• I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

  Jack LaLanne

  Turkeys, Eggs, Protein

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  Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

  Anne Tyler

  Funny, Dog, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• I'm not counting any chickens.

  Jeff Bridges

  Counting

  "Crazy Heart Made Jeff Bridges Unhealthy". Interview, www.amc.com. 2009.

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• You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

  George M. Humphrey

  Morning, Fog, Lunch

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• If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

  Seymour Cray

  Witty, Strong, Powerful

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• I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

  Liev Schreiber

  Months, Firsts, Moved

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• The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

  Bob Hope

  Humorous, Israel, Soup

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• Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

  Chubby Checker

  Business

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• Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Foxes

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.223, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Turkeys, Ducks

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• 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

  Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Want

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• Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Inspiration, Insperational

  "My Life and Work".

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• If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

  Grandma Moses

  Memorable, Painting, Raised

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Europe, Disappointing, Fried Chicken

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• As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.

  Tony Curtis

  Knows

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• I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

  Sarah Chalke

  Years, Fish Tanks, Meat

  "Interview: The Cast And Crew Of Scrubs". Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. May 9, 2006.

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