Chickens Quotes - Page 32

• 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

  Girl, Eggs, Wife

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Want, Dinner, Firsts

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• Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't any money. Every day I would have to raise chicken and bread and broccoli and go ahead and spend all my time trading. So, money is a wonderful mechanism.

  Dan Ariely

  Bread, Wonderful, Invention

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

  Josh Billings

  Garden, Scratches, Knows

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• What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.

  Lance Berkman

  Eggs, Doubt, Firsts

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• A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great, instead of oil for food, we're giving them oil in food.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Oil, Iraq

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• I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

  Nick Frost

  Jobs, Teenager, Israel

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• There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bird, Magic, Littles

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• In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.

  Michael Pollan

  Way, Killing

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Creating, Levels

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• A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

  Diane Duane

  Magic, Soup, Littles

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• The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

  Scott Glenn

  Knowing, Hard

  "Fictional character: Capt. Bart Mancuso". "The Hunt for Red October", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "What for?"

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Yesterday

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• Taco Bell is going to start selling nachos and chicken nuggets wrapped in a tortilla. In other words, thank God we're going to keep Obamacare.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, Thank God, Nachos

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• Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Teeth, Hot

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• And after, you know, having the old chicken or whatever it is they bring around and a couple of cocktails, you turn to the person sitting next to you and say, you know, you going home, then?

  Nick Lowe

  Couple, Home, Sitting

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
  '87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
  She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
  She had the club foot, with that little arm,
  I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Feet, Laughing

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• Cloned chickens walking around without heads,
  The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it.
  Population control, make the babies sick,
  All these RFID chips, RU-486...
  This is a war against consciousness,
  Controlling your soul, sort of a psychological dictatorship.
  And we are on the front lines,
  Guilty as charged if intellect is a crime.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Baby, War, Rap

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• Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.

  Glenn Beck

  Strength, Fall, Lunch

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• Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.

  Dave Mustaine

  Couple, Gun, Player

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• My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Pox, Mama

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2010

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• When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

  Jung Chang

  Dog, Men, Heaven

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?

  William Carlos Williams

  Sex, Hens, Roosters

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• I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken.

  Miranda Kerr

  Ocean, Blood, Vegetables

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

  Lenny Bruce

  Islands, Guy, Desert

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