Quotes by category:Eggs

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it w... by Langston Hughes

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Langston Hughes

eggs patient life-is

This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

Langston Hughes

eggs morning two

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

Laura Bell Bundy

eggs acting writing

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

lunch eggs white

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready by Liam Williams

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

eggs preparation bird

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

growth eggs civilization

Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

Lilith Saintcrow

hunting eggs dark

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty... by Lewis Carroll

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

through-the-looking-glass eggs said

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Lillian Hellman

eggs important thinking

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eg... by Libba Bray

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?

murderer eggs wonder

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

good-work eggs meat

There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!

eggs race sweet

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest d... by Lois Ehlert

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

eggs dream bird

When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in the orchard. It’s what you always do. Let’s have it.” Cam gave him a sardonic glance. “I can’t think of one right now.” “By God, I’ve had to listen to hundreds of them. And Phelan doesn’t have to hear even one?

eggs pigs thinking

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first. by Lorraine Hansberry

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

Lorraine Hansberry

eggs want firsts

I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing curls. In a few cases this may be true, but those guys would build big forearms by merely eating eggs in the morning. Most bodybuilders, myself included, have to work very hard for any kind of meaningful forearm development.

eggs morning meaningful

I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.

eggs nature science

I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.

Loudon Wainwright III

grateful eggs years

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

Louis D. Brandeis

golden eggs bankers

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

eggs justice long