If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen? — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“There is a soughing in the beech trees and the ash, and the small music of the hens.” — Sebastian Barry 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
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 nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it… — Frances Power Cobbe 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
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
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
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
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
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
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson 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
And the betrayers of language … n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters… — Ezra Pound 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
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
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
[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
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image