Quotes about Chickens

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. Votes: 4

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. Votes: 4

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Votes: 4

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. Votes: 4

Am I eating chicken or tuna? Votes: 3

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction. Votes: 3

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. Votes: 3

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost. Votes: 3

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. Votes: 3

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. Votes: 3

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business. Votes: 3

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. Votes: 3

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. Votes: 3

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo. Votes: 3

Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross roads. Votes: 3

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. Votes: 3

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. Votes: 3

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight. Votes: 3

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. Votes: 3

Chickens are a symbol of chaos. Wherever you stick a chicken, unless it's a chicken farm, it's just chaos. Votes: 3

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Votes: 3

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat. Votes: 3

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. Votes: 3

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.' Votes: 3

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death. Votes: 3

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. Votes: 3

Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being. Votes: 3

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. Votes: 3

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one. Votes: 3

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days. Votes: 3

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move. Votes: 3

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. Votes: 3

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. Votes: 3

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming. Votes: 3

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! Votes: 3

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house. Votes: 3

I'm not counting any chickens. Votes: 1

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. Votes: 1

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. Votes: 1

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. Votes: 1

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall. Votes: 1

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone! Votes: 1

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. Votes: 1

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. Votes: 1

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat. Votes: 1

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well. Votes: 1

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. Votes: 1

I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway. Votes: 1

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse. Votes: 1

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost. Votes: 1

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard. Votes: 1

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. Votes: 1

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be. Votes: 1

The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames. Votes: 1

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers. Votes: 1

An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy. Votes: 1

We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well, but they were a little bit violent, so we had to give them away. When we were little, we used to play with the goats all the time. We each had our own little goat, and we'd go and run around with them. Votes: 1

I just love chickens. Votes: 0

Creativity is like chasing chickens. Votes: 0

Sanders was a friend of chickens. Votes: 0

Don't put eggs under dead chickens. Votes: 0

Don't count your chickens before they egg. Votes: 0

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Votes: 0

The chickens have come home to roast. Votes: 0

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. Votes: 0

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion. Votes: 0

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. Votes: 0

I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched. Votes: 0

Movies. Drinks. Headless chickens. You know, girl stuff. Votes: 0

Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch. Votes: 0

In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch. Votes: 0

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings. Votes: 0

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet. Votes: 0

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana. Votes: 0

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens Votes: 0

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them. Votes: 0

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven. Votes: 0

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. Votes: 0

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one. Votes: 0

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too. Votes: 0

With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched. Votes: 0

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick. Votes: 0

I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress. Votes: 0

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better. Votes: 0

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason. Votes: 0

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden. Votes: 0

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven. Votes: 0

If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg. Votes: 0

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there. Votes: 0

... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens. Votes: 0

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish. Votes: 0

One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids. Votes: 0

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens. Votes: 0

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? Votes: 0

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Votes: 0

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. Votes: 0

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket Votes: 0

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*. Votes: 0

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones. Votes: 0

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. Votes: 0

If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works. Votes: 0

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs. Votes: 0

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! Votes: 0

Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens. Votes: 0

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside. Votes: 0

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens. Votes: 0

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens. Votes: 0

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house. Votes: 0

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next. Votes: 0

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens. Votes: 0

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. Votes: 0

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. Votes: 0

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother. Votes: 0

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that. Votes: 0

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens. Votes: 0

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention. Votes: 0

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living. Votes: 0

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs. Votes: 0

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. Votes: 0

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other? Votes: 0

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun. Votes: 0

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops. Votes: 0

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible. Votes: 0

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin. Votes: 0

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens Votes: 0

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling. Votes: 0

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men. Votes: 0

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Votes: 0

Then I yelled through his door, "It's an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. FIFTEEN YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS. Votes: 0

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost! Votes: 0

I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'. Votes: 0

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot. Votes: 0

Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God! Votes: 0

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves! Votes: 0

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part. Votes: 0

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks. Votes: 0

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. Votes: 0

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens. Votes: 0

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. Votes: 0

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs. Votes: 0

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think. Votes: 0

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." Votes: 0

My message is use grass-fed beef, use heirloom pork varieties, use organic chickens, wait until wild salmon or wild seafood are in season, smoke organic vegetables. Votes: 0

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator? Votes: 0

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu. Votes: 0

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been. Votes: 0

People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold. Votes: 0

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high. Votes: 0

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it. Votes: 0

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens. Votes: 0

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens. Votes: 0

Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs. Votes: 0

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. Votes: 0

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason. Votes: 0

I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties. Votes: 0

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. Votes: 0

The way I'd put it, said Makin, is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace. Votes: 0

I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority. Votes: 0

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied! Votes: 0

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! Votes: 0

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! Votes: 0

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost. Votes: 0

IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen. Votes: 0

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium? Votes: 0

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg. Votes: 0

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much. Votes: 0

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil. Votes: 0

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens. Votes: 0

I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book! Votes: 0

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch. Votes: 0

I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother. Votes: 0

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. Votes: 0

One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words. Votes: 0

The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw them a few bread crumbs. They will then follow you forever. Votes: 0

The chickens bounced onto the pink and purple bush and landed on Annika's head." It's funny because nobody has ever said that before. I should get an award or something because I just made history! Votes: 0

Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens. Votes: 0

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor. Votes: 0

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates. Votes: 0