Poultry Quotes

• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  Dan Glickman

  Meat, Safe

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• A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

  George Ade

  Hands, Two, Bird

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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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• Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.

  Mike Johanns

  Jobs, Law, Meat

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.

  Joan Bauer

  Cooks, Truth Of Life

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• Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Population, Incubation, Manifestation

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• For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

  Curtis Stone

  Vegetables, Balance, Important

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• People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Meat, Enjoy

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Educational, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Food, Cooking

  "The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy".

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Business, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

  Mike Johanns

  Meat, Fit, Natural

  Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Commitment, Pigs

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• Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

  Mike Johanns

  Quality, Meat, Wonderful

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Potatoes

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

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• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be

  Mark Bittman

  Evil, Meat, Littles

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• That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.

  Robert Muchamore

  Jobs, Couple, Kids

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• I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.

  Alton Brown

  Loss, Moisture, Want

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

  Bryan Shelton

  Tests, Clients, Vegetarian

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• Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.” “Thanks,” I muttered. “Can’t wait to be poultry forever.

  Rick Riordan

  Waiting, Forever, Thanks

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Self, Holocaust, Rabbits

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

  Percy Grainger

  Children, Nice, People

  "How I Became a Meat-Shunner". American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, p. 4, December 1946.

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• Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Race, Ducks, Pie

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

  Martin Filler

  New York, Writing, Islands

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