Roosters Quotes

• A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Dark, Greatness, Light

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2009

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• Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Men, Universe

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• It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

  Jim Hightower

  Wisdom, Doe, May

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• There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Morning, Heart

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• To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Pieces, Chickens

  Edward Ford, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Joseph Durso (1977). “Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years”, Viking Adult

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• Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Past, Secret

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.179, Faber & Faber

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• The sun rises every morning and sheds light, vanquishing the night's darkness. The rooster also rises every morning only, unlike the sun, he simply makes noise. But the darkness of the night is dispelled by sunshine, not by the rooster's crowing. The world can use more light and less noise. Wherever I can, I want to be light.

  Steve Goodier

  Morning, Sunshine, Night

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• Charm never made a rooster.

  Dean Acheson

  Charm, Made

  Of poorly-organized attempts to maintain peace by good intentions. Quoted in James B Reston Deadline (1991).

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• The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,
  But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.
  For I hear all the talk of pollution and war
  As the people all shout and the airplane roar,
  So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm,
  And I WILL NOT HATCH!

  Shel Silverstein

  Fear, War, Airplane

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• One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Men, One Day

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• Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Males, Cry, Chickens

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Men, Hens, Farmers

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• The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Voice, Quality, Littles

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• The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Night, Misunderstood

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• George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

  Al Gore

  Wall, Rising, Credit

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• Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Morning, Crow, Film

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• If it looks stupid on a rooster, it's probably gonna look stupid on you.

  Cody Rhodes

  Stupid, Wwe, Looks

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• Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Crow, Bears

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• Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.

  Howlin' Wolf

  Home, Cat, People

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• We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

  Aravind Adiga

  Genuine Concern, Mystery, Made

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• Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Fine

  'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'

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• He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mother, Conquer The World, Velvet

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.353, Hamilton Books

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• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Memories, Believe

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• A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

  Earl Long

  Sarcastic, Dollars, Looks

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• Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.

  Frank Pittman

  Daughter, Children, Father

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