Hens Quotes - Page 2

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.