#chicken

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#curran #ilona-andrews #kate #kate-daniels #magic-burns

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. ↗

— Aesop

#chickens #count #hatched #your

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#american workers #attract #built #chicken #continue

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#chickens #coats #course #dear #dogs

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#eat #egg #fish #get #i

My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#chicken #colonel #go #i #joke

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love. ↗

— Seth Green

#done #lot #love #out #robot

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter. ↗

— Raul Julia

#buy #chicken #could #day #eat

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