Chickens Quotes - Page 22

• You might heckle me now - but when I get home, I've got a chicken in the oven.

  Harry Hill

  Home, Might, Ovens

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• I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.

  Kay Robertson

  Thinking, Squirrels, Love Making

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Growing Up, Pain

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• I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

  Noel Coward

  Country, Horse, Want

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.208, A&C Black

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• (You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

  Pat Conroy

  Temptation, Watches

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Couple, Nice

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• I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

  Henry IV of France

  Food, Sunday, Want

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, 1922.

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• As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

  Jack Canfield

  Real, Soup, Week

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• Ive had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

  Isabel dos Santos

  Eggs, Six, Young

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• Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

  Daniel Pauly

  Justified

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• Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

  Christopher Moore

  Ducks, Paper, Pants

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• My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?

  Shirley Temple

  Eggs, Special, Tricks

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• Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Gay, Each Month

  Maurice Sendak (1991). “Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months”, Harper Collins

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• I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

  Elaine Equi

  Eggs, Looks, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify them as thieves for the rest of their lives. Painting a red hand on everyone is pretty stupid when you think about it.” “That tattoo is supposed to be a hand?” Hadrian asked. “I thought it was a little red chicken. But now that you mention it, a hand does make more sense.” Royce looked back at Will and tilted his head to one side. “Does kinda look like a chicken.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Tattoo, Stupid, Thinking

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• I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.

  Julie James

  Girl, Wings, Mind

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.25, Penguin

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• I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Running, Character, Cutting

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.171, Delacorte Press

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• The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doubt, Chains, Madmen

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I left it with a warmer,” he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.

  Karen Chance

  War, Frozen, Said

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• I suck at all this supernatural stuff. But I fry a mean chicken. Oh, good. I hate it when the nice ones get fried.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Nice, Mean

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.117, Macmillan

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.

  Rick Riordan

  Rafting, Fancy, Phantoms

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Tractors

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Gabe brings home a chicken and Tommy Falk for dinner. Truth be told, I'm not unhappy to see any of them. Gabe, because it's been so long since we've had dinner with him; the chicken because it's not beans; and Tommy Falk because his presence makes Gabe cheerful and goofy.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, Long, Unhappy

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