You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. — George M. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ‚‚… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The… — Hazel McCallion Copy Share Image
When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others… — Charlotte Knobloch Copy Share Image
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is… — Goodluck Jonathan Copy Share Image
[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without… — Charles Gavan Duffy Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is.… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“If Brinna is your daughter, they really were three French hens after all.” She opened her mouth to explain about the day… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments,… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image