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Now, brooder is an interesting word. People who worry a lot in silence are known as brooders. But then again so is a hen sitting on her eggs. The more I get to know chickens, the more I realize half our language comes from chickens. Well, not half. But an awful lot considering this isn't Latin or anything. Cooped up. Egghead. Hatch a plan. Henpecked. Pecker. Cock. Chickenshit. Chicken-scratch. A lot of chicken words are meant to deliver attitude, which isn't surprising to me now that I have chickens. Chickens aren't background animals like fish or sheep or horses. Chickens are in-your-face animals. Chickens if you have them, come to bracket your days. The rooster hollers all morning, and then in the evening the hens have left you their mysterious gift of eggs. Silkies are said to be excellent brooders, to have a tendency toward "broodiness." This, too, is usually meant as a compliment.


Jeanne Marie Laskas


#chickens #attitude

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.


James W. Black


#brood #central #engineer #father #gave

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.


Sivananda


#depression #failures #fill #future #grief

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.


Carson McCullers


#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .


Charles Dickens


#diseased #mind #perverse #perverted #reverse

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.


Aldous Huxley


#brooding #guilt #morality #remorse #repentance

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.


James Ellroy


#american #american history #brooding #crime #history

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.


David Guterson


#feel #grasp #i #interpret #melancholy

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.


David Guterson


#haunts #me #melancholy

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.


Charles Evans Hughes


#another day #appeals #brooding #day #intelligence






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