Hens Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• If a robin redbreast in a cage
  Puts all heaven in a rage,
  How feels heaven when
  Dies the billionth battery hen?

  Spike Milligan

  Heaven, Robins, Batteries

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• Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.

  Julia Quinn

  Garden, Vegetables, Interesting

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• It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

  Charles Darwin

  Acres, Earth, Fields

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.514, VM eBooks

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• Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

  Armando Iannucci

  Eggs, Fickle

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• When someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. Second, and more important, we ought to have a spiritual experience. Third, and most important, we should keep the commitments we make to ourselves.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Spiritual, Commitment, Important

  Paraphrased in "Food Storage" by Vaughn J. Featherstone, www.lds.org. April 1976.

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• There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Virtue, Great Men, Neighborhood

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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Cheerful

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• The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Men, Years, Solitude

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.683, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

  Daniel Craig

  Silly, Opportunity, Interesting

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, House, Together

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Eagles, Soar

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• [W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Party, Pay The Price, Causes

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• hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.

  Jeff Pinkner

  Writing, Thinking, Temptation

  Source: collider.com

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