The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back…

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas…

— Anonymous

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

— Malcolm X

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social…

— Cesar Chavez

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

— Douglas MacArthur

A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.

— Chinese Proverbs

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

— Lucius Beebe

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

— Aesop

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set…

— Charles Churchill

There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over…

— Rufus Wainwright

“Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock -- Keeps flying by itself in the dusk. Back and forth, it has no resting place, Night…

— Qian Tao

I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive…

— Joyce Meyer

You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots,…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.

— English Proverb

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

— Arthur Miller

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero