Roost Quotes

• The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

  Arthur Miller

  Home, Writing, Editing

  Harper's, Aug. 1958

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• I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

  Bradley Whitford

  Horse, Home, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

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• Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Home, Godly, Sin

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.176, Xist Publishing

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• London is a roost for every bird.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Bird, London, City Of London

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”

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• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Susanna Moodie

  Home, Chickens, Curse

  Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Media, Democracy

  "Today's Power Play: Bloomberg Bid Would Help Obama" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Aesop

  Home, Evil, Wish

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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• The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Home, House, Chickens

  Comment to John F Kennedy on the presidential crisis. Kennedy enjoyed the remark and often quoted it. Quoted in Theodore C Sorensen Kennedy (1965).

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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, Hens

  Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book I”

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• The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

  Jeremiah Wright

  Home, America, Yards

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Stars, Past, Rewards

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• Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

  Cesar Chavez

  Home, Past, Times Are Changing

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.296, Penguin

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• Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Brother, Legs, Firsts

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• It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

  Miles Franklin

  Wise, Years, Generations

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
  The spectral Owl doth dwell;
  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,
  But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!
  Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--
  All mock him outright, by day:
  But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,
  The boldest will shrink away!
  O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,
  Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!

  Bryan Procter

  Fall, Sunshine, Night

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• A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

  Lucius Beebe

  Bird, Gourmet, Flavor

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• Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, Book, Kids

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" By David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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• What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Expression, Years, Tree

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Like You, Chickens

  The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

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• There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

  David Attenborough

  Home, Years, Space

  "Humans are plague on Earth". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

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• Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Children, Husband, Heart

  Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam

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• Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Moving, Past, Sky

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• Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

  David Cronenberg

  Home, Technology, Body

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

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