Hens Quotes - Page 5

• Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eggs, Enough, Made

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• The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Apples, Never Trust, Lord

  George R.R. Martin (2011). “A Dance With Dragons Complete Edition (Two in One) (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)”, p.67, HarperCollins UK

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• Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn out that there are in fact whole sections of the country which believe that it is legitimate to chop off peoples hands because they stole a hen - if that should really turn out to be the genuine belief of responsible, educated people in the North than I would say there is no chance. But I do not believe that is the case. The sharia was always there but it was never force onto non-Muslims and it was not ever applied in the area of criminal law.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.

  Peter Schiff

  Government, Numbers, House

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• [W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.

  John Hyams

  Real, Opposites, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• If consumers weren't thinking this way, companies would be a lot less responsive. Right now, consumers don't really have a way to get information about where exactly their clothing is coming from - that's a barrier. We have labels on your eggs, "cage-free hens." They need to get something along those lines to allow the consumer to discriminate.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Thinking, Eggs, Would Be

  Source: content.time.com

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• Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Cutting, Wings

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

  Louis Aragon

  Ideas, Teeth

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• [W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

  Chuck Jones

  Fall, Worry, Coyotes

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• Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
  Except the ill of being poor
  Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
  Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
  Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
  To catch all feet except their own,
  Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
  As easily as pick a pocket.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Feet, Pockets

  Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book I”

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• [W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

  E. O. Wilson

  Mind, Religion, Bullets

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

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• I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

  Louise Erdrich

  Want Something, Church, Would Be

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.77, Odyssey Editions

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• Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Stress, Ducks, People

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

  Deborah Moggach

  Garden, Mad, Three

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• In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Prayer, Husband

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.271, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
  Between the two we live and die
  The broken cartwheel on the hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Country, Blue

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.359, Vintage

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• The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Dog, Zoos, Taken

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• I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, Read Books Ltd

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• The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Bird, Moss, Males

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• Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Eggs, Cows

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• I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

  Gabriel Byrne

  Dark, Thinking, Eggs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

  David Attenborough

  Attitude, Ocean, Grandchildren

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• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beaks, Pens

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• A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

  Chinua Achebe

  Two, Friendly, Doe

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.125, Heinemann

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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, Roosters, Chickens

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