Chickens Quotes - Page 8

• My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

  Al Jardine

  Horse, Couple, Pigs

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Heart, Pie

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• Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

  Jesse Jackson

  Biscuits, Born, Ovens

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• When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Swans, Killing

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.167, Bantam

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• We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Issues, Car

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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• There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

  Annie Dillard

  Generations, Heroic, Pure

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.70, Vintage

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• You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Glasses, Doors, Cake

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.46, Vintage

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• The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

  Lesley Nicol

  Husband, Firsts, Meals

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

  Joan Rivers

  Life, Want, Aging

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• From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.

  Augusta Savage

  Brother, Fall, Rain

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• Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

  Michael Symon

  Food, Skins, Riding

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• Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

  Alan Bradley

  Toil, Vineyards, Chemistry

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.240, Delacorte Press

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• Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

  Mary Schmich

  Children, Divorce, Wedding Anniversary

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.59, Agate Digital

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• All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Virginia, Two

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• Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

  Dan Mathews

  Stars, Animal, Play

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Successful, Animal

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• To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cowboy, People

  Alistair Cooke (1979). “The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

  Etgar Keret

  Mother, Knives, Example

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• I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

  Colonel Sanders

  Funny, Drunk, Entrepreneur

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• Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented
  when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce
  and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?

  Calvin Trillin

  Blue, Wings, Half

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

  Mariah Carey

  Ashes, Lotion

  Song: It's Like That, Album: The Emancipation of Mimi, 2005

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

  Mark Forsyth

  Eggs, Fart, Century

  Mark Forsyth (2012). “The Horologicon”, p.36, Icon Books

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• Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.

  Rick Riordan

  Remember, Wonderful, Excuse

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