Hens Quotes · Page 5

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality…

— Jonathan Haidt

[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

I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection…

— Christmas Evans

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

— Ambrose Bierce

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of…

— Agatha Christie

[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

When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or…

— Jonathan Balcombe

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried…

— Emily Carr

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be…

— Julie Garwood

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

— Michael Foot

Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants…

— Cassandra Clare

The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all…

— Shel Silverstein

[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

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

— Coco Chanel

One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate…

— Calvin Coolidge

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a…

— Pat Conroy

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would…

— Charles Darwin

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

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

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

— Julia Quinn

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my…

— Deborah Moggach