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Quotes About Rooster

As we rode along LaBoeuf commenced whistling tunes, perhaps to take his mind off his sore arm. Rooster said, "God damn a man that whistles!" It was the wrong thing to say if he wished it to stop.
~ Charles Portis
National pride may be an absurd feeling, yet a rooster's pride as he struts about in his own yard amid the hens is biologically useful. (The Captive Mind)
~ Czeslaw Milosz
Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Crito we owe a rooster to Aesculapius
~ Plato
Christ, was he going to die in public, in a pleasure garden, in the company of a sodomite spy dressed like a rooster?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Thee is a rooster, William," Rachel said mournfully. "I saw this in thee before, but now I know it for certain." "A rooster," he repeated coldly, brushing dirt from his sleeve. "Indeed. A vain, crowing, gaudy sort of fellow—that's what you think me?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Gamache sighed to himself. Of all the literally divine music here, he had to have "Camptown Races" sung by a rooster stuck in his head.
~ Louise Penny
I hear the cock woke you up." Eve choked on her coffee. "What?" "Not that kind of cock." Sinead sent a sparkling look over her shoulder. "Though if that's true as well, good for you. I meant the rooster.
~ J.D. Robb
T. Cluck, the head rooster, had just made a shocking revelation.
~ John R. Erickson
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
~ Joe Adcock
My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things.
~ Unknown
But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.
~ Nikolai Gogol
One of the most comical witch-prosecutions took place in 1474 against a diabolical rooster who had been so presumptuous as to lay an egg. The poor creature was solemnly tried, whereupon he was condemned to die at the stake and publicly burned by order of the authorities of the good city of Basel.
~ Paul Carus