Chickens Quotes - Page 14

• My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]

  Rick Riordan

  Bird, Faces, Normal

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being "harvested" and then being "processed" in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.

  Peter Cheeke

  House, Bird, Environmental

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• I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

  Henry IV of France

  Food, Sunday, Want

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, 1922.

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• I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

  Jose Andres

  Mom, Father, Waiting

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• Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

  Mike Rowe

  Doors, Two, Doe

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• I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.

  Mary Margaret O'Hara

  Long, People, Rhythm

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

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• You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

  Jodi Thomas

  School, Thinking, Everyday

  Jodi Thomas (2010). “Welcome to Harmony”, p.21, Penguin

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• Hypnosis. You know, I'm not a big fan of that bark like a chicken, cluck like a dog stuff.

  Jack O'Neill

  Dog, Hypnosis, Fans

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• If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Hero, Ifs

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.234, Book Publishing Company

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• Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.

  Brad Marchand

  Wings, Lunch, Breakfast

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• My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

  Beth Ditto

  Dad, Squirrels, Brain

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• I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Hamburgers, Want

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• When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

  Stephen Elop

  Boston, White, Potatoes

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• MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Mtv

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• It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

  Craig Johnston

  Sports, Practice, Eggs

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• My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.

  Carl Barron

  Funny, Dad, Sound

  "Carl Barron Live". Comedy, 2003.

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• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Growing Up, Pain

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Thinking, Swans

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• Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Pigs, Talking

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• My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs

  Groucho Marx

  Brother, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

  Jason Sellards

  Morning, Vegetables, Oatmeal

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• Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.

  Katherine Dunn

  Cat, Rivers, Air

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• Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.

  Anne Bishop

  White, Expression, Missing

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.178, Penguin

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• I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.

  James Belushi

  Moving, California, Years

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