Eggs Quotes - Page 15

• The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

  Peg Bracken

  Fire, Rocks, Long

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

  Peg Bracken

  Years, Vines, Ham

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Travel, Sorry, Tea

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.65

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.

  Edward Heath

  Country, Mean, Men

  Edward Heath's remarks to the press after Harold Wilson was hit by eggs thrown by demonstrators on two successive days (June 1, 1970), as quoted in Edward Heath "The Course of My Life" (p. 305), 1998.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

  Bobby Robson

  Chickens, Lays, Ifs

  14 Copy quote

• A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

  Les Dawson

  Growing Up, Squares, Wind

  21 Copy quote

• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sunshine

  4 Copy quote

• So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

  Michael Parkinson

  Clever, Smart, Boys

  7 Copy quote

• the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Baby, Food

  49 Copy quote

• The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

  Drew Barrymore

  Faces, Firsts, Facts

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  David Robertson

  San Francisco, Effort, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

  Emily Dickinson

  Educational, Bird, Criticism

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like my cinema gritty, I like my eggs gritty.

  David Letterman

  Cinema

  4 Copy quote

• White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

  Kenya Hara

  White, Example, Milk

  25 Copy quote

• I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.

  Johnny Depp

  School, Weekend, Boys

  27 Copy quote

• Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

  Marian Keyes

  Focus, Magic, Different

  50 Copy quote

• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

  E. B. White

  Summer, Song, House

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

  Clarence Day

  Ancestry, Birth, Source

  7 Copy quote

• When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.

  Wendell Berry

  Hard Times, People, Together

  4 Copy quote

• Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Teacher, Work, Home

  9 Copy quote

• When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  Cutting, Dvds, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

  Black Francis

  Writing, Artist, Chickens

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lying, Night, Vocabulary

  5 Copy quote

• Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Order, Ideas

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

  79 Copy quote

  Show source