Eggs Quotes

• I try to take care
  and be gentle to them.
  Words and eggs must be handled with care.
  Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

  Anne Sexton

  Impossible Things, Broken, Trying

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Adventure, Cooking

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Friendship, Thank You, True Friend

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• If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

  Anthony Eden

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Should

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• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Past, Shells

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “The Complete Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

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• The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

  Mason Cooley

  Perfection, Want, Symbols

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• Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth

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• Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Heart, Thoughtful

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• It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Crow, May, Hens

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Perfect, What If, Fear Of Failure

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• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Bird, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

  Warren Buffett

  Easter, Investment Success, Bunnies

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.13, Carolina Academic Press

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• A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

  Angela Carter

  Literature, Salt, Argument

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

  Delia Smith

  Art, Food, Design

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• It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

  John Green

  Morning, Embarrassing, Accepting

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.85, Penguin

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• The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break

  Julia Child

  Giving, Your Best Friend, Break

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• Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

  George Bernard Shaw

  Judging, Judgement, Very Good

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

  Gracie Allen

  Food, Silly, Two

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• Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Vaccines, Business Success, Self Improvement

  "James Watt".

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• Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

  Zhuangzi

  Heaven, Earth

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• Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Wisdom, Perseverance

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• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Swans, Ugly Duckling, Ducks

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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