Chickens Quotes - Page 4

• I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Hilarious, Dream

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Oil

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• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  Ralph Nader

  Return, Manufacturing

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• I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Nerd, Biting, Sound

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• Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Taken, Flavor

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• When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Baby, Flower

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

  Jessica Simpson

  Stupid, Tuna Fish, Sea

  "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

  Chuck Jones

  Wall, Flower, Smell

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• Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

  Todd English

  Turkeys, Cache, Delicacy

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• Here's what the kids get. They get free McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken for a year, and 52 six-packs of Pepsi. And I'm thinking, well, actually, it might be healthier if they were taking steroids.

  David Letterman

  Kids, Thinking, Kentucky

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• People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

  Oscar Wilde

  Running, People, Impossible

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Business, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  Salma Hayek

  Fun, Agriculture, Farms

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

  Phil McGraw

  Dog, Feathers

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Literature, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

  Frank Perdue

  Men, Tough Man, Tenderness

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• A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Get Well, Humor

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• A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

  J. C. Watts

  Men, Voting, Black

  "Foreign trip, domestic gamble" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2003.

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• Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Invertebrates

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• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  Queen Latifah

  Shy, Tennessee, Pot

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• There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Running, House

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• Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nuts, Wings, Bird

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

  Gary Larson

  Depression, Long, Bluebird

  Gary Larson (1988). “The far side gallery 3”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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