Quotes of: Hen Keyword

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

Michael Foot

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Sarah Brown

Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that w...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

George M. Humphrey

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

Coco Chanel

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportati...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do wit...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Even though Sam wasn't a romance author, he knew all the big ones, the heavy hitters and those that had crossed genres. He was greeted by most of the authors, some he knew and others who wanted to meet the famous author. Needless to say the romance g...

Murder in Paradise

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

H. L. Mencken

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Nikita Khrushchev

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Nikita Khrushchev

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Aeschylus

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

Life

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

Shelley Berkley

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

Johannes Tauler

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Jo Nesbo

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 is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

Lady Gregory