Eggs Quotes - Page 8

• All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Self, Provocative

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

  Paul Tsongas

  Employment, Golden, Despise

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• If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.

  Groucho Marx

  Stupidity, Ham, Ifs

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• For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Self Esteem, Workaholic, Baskets

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

  Aldous Huxley

  Women, Female, Century

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• Im as country as a dozen eggs.

  Elvin Bishop

  Country, Dozen

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• Two eggs do not an omelette make

  Brooke Shields

  Two

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• When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.

  Fred Shero

  Commitment, Pigs, Breakfast

  "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.

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• You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

  C. S. Lewis

  Goes On

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• The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  White, Evil, Black

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• The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

  Liam Williams

  Bird, Preparation, Peer Pressure

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• The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

  H. G. Wells

  Nurse, People, Shells

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sides, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.139, Classic Books Company

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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

  Special, Chickens, Tricks

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• At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

  Delta Goodrem

  Thinking, Frozen, Young

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• If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back to me. Talking about he's the baddest guy in the UFC? Brock, quit eating so many raw eggs and doing push-ups because it's affecting your realm of reality. Are you kidding me? I'd slap you in your face, and you wouldn't do anything. 'I'm Brock Lesnar. I've got this $5 haircut and a knife tattooed on my chest.' I'll shove it up your face if you get in Chael Sonnen's way.

  Chael Sonnen

  Reality, Ufc, Talking

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• A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

  Robert Winston

  Ovaries, Teens, Young

  "Relax, couch potatoes - your sperm is safe" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Believe, Human Life

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

  Robert Winston

  Running, Children, Reading

  "Relax, couch potatoes - your sperm is safe" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

  Julian Baggini

  Yesterday, Asylum Seekers, News

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• The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Elephants, World, Findings

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• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  Paloma Faith

  Scotch, Meals, Tin

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Brother, Crazy

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• Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

  Mark Doty

  Animal, Two, Water

  Mark Doty (2012). “Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems”, p.100, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kissing, Evil, Add

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

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