Chickens Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Funny, Animal, Squirrels

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• Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

  John Updike

  Writing, Eggs, Lays

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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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• 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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• How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

  Valerie Martin

  Eye, Animal, Teeth

  Valerie Martin (2013). “The Great Divorce”, p.39, 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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• Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

  Ali Vincent

  Self, Giving, Want

  Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.109, Rodale

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• My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

  Joel McCrea

  Mother, Eggs, Business Deals

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• I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.

  Adam Driver

  Years, Lunch, Four

  "Girls’ Adam Driver on Joining the Marines and Playing Lena Dunham’s Boyfriend". Interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Men, Wwe, Arses

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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 idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Trying, Locks, Frozen

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

  Joseph Mawle

  Jesus, Thinking, Sheep

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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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• Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Running, Home

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• You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Dark, White, Long

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• Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train...

  Graham Nash

  Wall, Lying, Sunset

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• Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sky, People, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.67, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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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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• Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him.

  Doug Wead

  Soul, Stories, Development

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• I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

  Chellie Pingree

  Skills, Helpful, Excellent

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• I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kings, Book, Too Much

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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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• We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Moving, People, Rabbits

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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