Quote by Alice Macleod

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

— Liam Williams

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

— Robin Morgan

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel…

— John James Audubon

The rooster may roost but does the chicken lay eggs?

— Jessica

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn…

— C. S. Lewis

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch…

— Israelmore Ayivor

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among…

— Amelia Barr

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

— Samuel Butler

“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of…

— William James

“The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain…

— Aesop

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

— Henry David Thoreau