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Quotes About Chickens

and may your stalk turn into a chicken and eat your testicles a peck at a time!
~ Colin Falconer
You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
~ Local saying
I want you to know, chickens aren't sexy. Not to me." This was met with silence. "Are you there?" She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. "Cam? Can you hear me?" "Yes, chickens aren't sexy. Uh…I don't think they're meant to be.
~ Jill Shalvis
When the snow began to fall, Maman was working in the shop, making Easter chocolates. Rabbits and chickens and baskets of eggs. Mendiants and nougatines. Nipples of Venus, and apricot hearts, and bitter orange slices. All wrapped up in cellophane, and tied with colored ribbons, and packed in boxes and sachets and bags, ready to give for Easter.
~ Joanne Harris
On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.
~ John Nettles
Vanessa," he murmured. I stared at him. I knew instantly what he meant. I had been thinking the same thing all along. Remembering the horrible moment we spilled Vanessa's groceries. "Yes," I agreed. "I didn't want to admit it. I didn't want to believe it. But Vanessa did this to us. Vanessa is BLUUUUCK BLUCCCK turning us into chickens." "Chicken chicken," he clucked.
~ R.L. Stine
My dream is that Cole gets punished for mouthing off the way he usually does. And his punishment is that he has to feed the chickens for the rest of his life. Everyone has to have a dream — right?
~ R.L. Stine
So, when Cole was two and I was four, we moved to Goshen Falls. Lucky us! The whole town is three blocks long. We have a cute little farm with a cute little farmhouse. And even though Mom and Dad are computer programmers — not farmers — we have a backyard full of chickens.
~ R.L. Stine
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Since when do rabbits have eggs?' Ruth persisted, looking at the bewildered villagers. 'Never thought of that, eh? Where did it get them? Presumably from chocolate chickens. The bunny must have stolen the eggs from candy chickens who're searching for their babies. Frantic.
~ Louise Penny
Certain kinds of duck are very generous on the egg front, so we've had them laboring from dawn to dusk for thousands of years along with chickens, just so we can bake cakes and meringues and quiche Lorraine.
~ Lucy Ellmann
Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Brunetti shrugged. They believed him to be a member of the community of scholars...'Community of Scholars, she repeated , It would make the chickens laugh
~ Donna Leon
In 1990 a Manchester City fan was banned from Maine Road, the club's stadium at the time. His offence? Bringing dead chickens into the venue, which he would swirl above his head anytime the Sky Blues scored.
~ Jack Goldstein
Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because chickens hadn't been invented back then!
~ Jack Goldstein
To find out what color egg a hen will lay, examine her earlobes. Hens with white earlobes lay white eggs; hens with red earlobes lay brown ones.
~ John Lloyd
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
[On the assassination of President John F. Kennedy:] It was, as I saw it, a case of "the chickens coming home to roost." I said that the hate in white men had not stopped with the killing of defenseless black people, but that hate, allowed to spread unchecked, had finally struck down this country's Chief Magistrate.
~ Unknown
At night frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts and carried off the squawking chickens. If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in the mud.
~ John Steinbeck
Will you stay to dinner? Adam asked. I will not be responsible for the murder of more chickens, said Samuel. Lee's got a pot roast. Well, in that case--
~ John Steinbeck
You know, if chickens had government and church and history, they would take a distant and distasteful view of human joy. Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.
~ John Steinbeck
Why do chickens have wishbones?" I asked her one day. One of the kitchen maids answered me in the fatuous tones of an adult adressing a child. "To make wishes on them!" (...) "You take one side of it -" "I know what we do with them (...) That's not what chickens have them for, though, or surely the chicken would have wished not to end up in the pot for out supper.
~ Marie Brennan
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
~ Henny Youngman
Baby dodos smell just like chickens.
~ Unknown