Hens Quotes

90 quotes by 85 authors

[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry… — Rajneesh
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those… — Cennino Cennini
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. — Johannes Tauler
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. — Michael Foot
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the… — Goodluck Jonathan
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it. — Agatha Christie
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they… — Pliny the Elder
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way… — Emily Carr
Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the… — Edgar Wilson Nye
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it… — Leo Burnett
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day. — Ray Charles
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It… — Lady Gregory
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. — Nikita Khrushchev
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a… — Edward Lear
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. — H. L. Mencken
I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start… — Susan Orlean
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. — Margaret Thatcher
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. — Mark Twain
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. — Jeanette Winterson

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