Quote by Tim Birkhead

“I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“ Boy and Egg Every few minutes, he wants to march the trail of flattened rye grass back to the house of muttering hens.…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Destiny The chicken I bought last night, Frozen, Returned to life, Laid the biggest egg in the world, And was awarded the Nobel Prize.…

— Marin Sorescu

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

— Delia Smith

“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

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

— Fisher Ames

“The friends of Columbus thought it very easy to make an egg stand upon its end when he had shown them how to do…

— Johann David Wyss

“His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.”

— Nathanael West

“The Easter egg which was not found contained a letter from the hen who laid it, saying "Fuck your kids, What about mine?”

— Shay Caroline

“Sir Bird preens next to me, tucking feathers into place with a low noise in his throat almost like he’s talking to himself. A…

— Kiersten White