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Quotes About Fowl

These resemble no chicken fingers I've ever seen, lass. And I saw a fair amount of chickens in my day. There was this wench in the stables with the most remarkable . . . well, never mind that. You must grow fowl considerably larger now. I shudder to ponder the size of their beaks.
~ Karen Marie Moning
But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!
~ Herman Melville
though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
~ Herman Melville
I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
~ Dave Winfield
We have not wholly shed our sense of a sacred duty to proclaim 'dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth'.
~ George Monbiot
What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks? Fowl weather.
~ Author Unknown
You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?" I really thought he was still speaking of the fowl, until he added, "Because I have got an aged parent at my place." I then said what politeness required.
~ Charles Dickens
After all there's a lot in that vegetarian fine flavour of things from the earth garlic of course it stinks after Italian organgrinders crisp of onions mushrooms truffles. Pain to the animal too. Pluck and draw fowl. Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open. Moo. Poor trembling calves. Meh.
~ James Joyce
Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror.
~ Charles Portis
Nothing upsets a fowl more than having to wait for dinner.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
His favorite chicken dish is Artemis Fowl.
~ Chris Grabenstein
She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn't.
~ Unknown
His life flowed soundless as the sands of an hour-glass. His victims sometimes flew into a rage and made a great deal of noise, followed by a great silence; so is it in a kitchen after a fowl's neck has been wrung.
~ Honore de Balzac
The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20
~ Craig Shirley
He later said, "I remember there was some chicken -- some killer fowl -- being locked in some cell somewhere, and I'm talking to this stuntman -- it's crazy, me talking to this Janos Prohaska, [who was] Hungarian or something... [saying], 'Janos, okay that's good, baby, now try this.' And there's this big chicken -- this killer chicken -- or some equivalent. I mean, it was nuts." (26-3)
~ Unknown
little inquisitorial committee of hens.
~ Niall Williams