Chickens Quotations

One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.

I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

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

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

We believe that the boy contracted the virus from his surroundings because, although his family does not raise chickens, there are chickens raised in his neighborhood.

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

With the latest lady we found in Jakarta, still I think the investigation is ongoing, there were lots of chickens and ducks in her neighborhood, but as far as I have been told there was no actual chicken deaths among those recently,

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

I don't eat chicken abortions!

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was

Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

We did discuss in China as well the importance of trying to restrict movements of chickens from areas that are infected, including across borders.

The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens are raised by farmers in their backyard and even within the cities, people are raising chickens and this is very difficult to control.

If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.

I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.

Since different kinds of wild birds and chickens have this virus, we can be quite sure that this virus is endemic in our birds.

Most poultry contain harmful bacteria. Recent statistics show that about 60 percent of chickens -- broilers -- are contaminated with campylobacter, and 10 percent with salmonella. And turkeys tend to be higher.

PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can. They're comparing chickens to black people?

I have been in the field and they say 'What are you telling us? We eat dead chickens and we have been doing that for centuries'.

I eat them at home, so I was really glad when they started having them here. I feel better that the chickens aren't in cages. It's better for them, and I think they taste better.

Given the poor grades that Texas received ... it is amazing that student achievement continued to improve over the last decade. We must, however, be concerned that the chickens will eventually come home to roost and the current inadequately funded system will no longer be able to provide the gains in achievement that we have seen in the past.

If we look at the importance of poultry as a percentage of GDP, it tends to be pretty small. But in terms of development and poverty, it's extremely important. Thousands and thousands of families depend on the chickens they raise in their backyards for food and income.

He was building his house and around it there were many chickens and birds running around. Researchers tested those birds and they tested positive for H5N1.

Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell ill. So, she must have contracted the virus from the sick birds.

If you a chicken head, go somewhere and lay some eggs

KFC has the ability to stop this cruelty today, simply by implementing the changes recommended by its own advisors, ... While KFC drags its feet, chickens continue to suffer unnecessarily.

Just the way they were jumping around, it was like they were going to the World Series. Don't count your chickens because all of them might not be hatched.

It isn't an absolute, but you certainly can say that the chances of containing spread among bird flocks in developed nations that have good agricultural capabilities and controls, to identify rapidly and cull and eliminate the sick chickens to prevent spread . . . is much better than in some other developing nations.

Like most people, I don't want to support cruelty to animals, whether it's forcing horses to race for our amusement or scalding chickens alive for our plate. We have to be more evolved than this.

I thought we were excited in the beginning, running around like chickens with our necks cut off. I feel we settled down, I just wondered how far we were going to go before we settled down.

I remember when we sold our last 1,000 hens, Helen and I danced a victory dance! We were absolutely delighted that there were no more chickens on the place.

Our poultry industry is very consolidated, unlike that of other countries where chickens are raised in yards and inside homes. Our chickens, turkeys and eggs are raised in very controlled environments.

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Surveillance is crucial because, in my view, the outbreaks affecting transmission among chickens were there for some time without being noticed.

My wife is from a little town in Mexico, she grew up with chickens. The chickens are the first thing she fell in love with. They're cute, you know?

We have to step up improvement of the primitive farming practice in China's rural regions, especially the backyard feeding of chickens and ducks in many rural households.

We recorded it at a place called Prairie Sun Studios, and it's an old chicken farm, so there were all these free range chickens running around.

We were still spring chickens back then. That was back in the 1960s. We got together at my house and played low-stakes poker.

We never count our chickens until they are actually published. The sooner we can get these regulations in place, the sooner communities can start benefiting from them.

We have another positive local test on a 30-year-old man. He had a history of contact with sick chickens near his house. He died on April 26.

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

You know, you can never count your chickens before they're hatched with this game. We all know that. All it is, is two days of solid golf. I'm going to have to go out there and produce the same thing on the weekend.

We are just going to get together and come up with a plan in case we get any evidence of bird flu. We have already passed an ordinance that states if the city manager declares the chickens a health nuisance you can kill all of them.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

[My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.