Eggs Quotes

Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.

~ Gail Honeyman

It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned, on a silver tray. Only then, when it was too late, and Paradise Pickles slumped softly to the floor without so much as a murmur or even the pretense of resistance, did Comrade Pillai realize that what he really needed was the process of war more than the outcome of victory. War could have been the stallion that he rode, part of, if not all, the way to the Legislative Assembly, whereas victory left him no better off than when he started out.He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.

~ Arundhati Roy

But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.

~ Terry Pratchett

Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

~ Jasper Fforde

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You got the eggs in you, the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labour. Never give up. Go and breed! Go and breed great dreams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals . . . We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it's too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us -- create who we are. It is we who created the system. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

~ Haruki Murakami

You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t expect someone who doesn’t know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don't leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best, you were created to use every gift in you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the butter very hot and put just a very few mushrooms into the frying pan, they come out nice and brown and crispy, whereas if the butter is only moderately hot and you crowd the mushrooms, they get all mushy and wet. Every time I make mushrooms I think of him. There was another man in my life when I was younger who taught me to put sour cream into scrambled eggs, and since I never ever put sour cream into scrambled eggs I never really think of him at all.

~ Nora Ephron

While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.

~ Christina Engela

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance.

~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

There was something sort of bleak about her tone, rather as if she had swallowed an east wind. This I took to be due to the fact that she probably hadn't breakfasted. It's only after a bit of breakfast that I'm able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow the universal favourite. I'm never much of a lad till I've engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee.I suppose you haven't breakfasted?I have not yet breakfasted.Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?No, thank you.She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.

~ Raymond Blanc

No bacon for you.Then no eggs for you. Either of you.Eve glowered at him. Prisoner exchange?They glared at each other, then swapped pans and started scooping.

~ Rachel Caine

Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

~ Enid Blyton

Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.

~ Harlan Tarbell

Imagine if you will:At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevitably) clandestine organization called the Time Saving Agency, there is a saying that goes: ‘You can’t break an omelet without first making eggs’. While this may appear to be a rather flippant little idiom, there is – as is usually the case, far more to it than meets the eye.

~ Christina Engela

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.

~ Rachel Vincent

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

~ James Joyce

These eggs are broken. Cracked.Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes.Does it?Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

~ Peter Hedges

Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or just coming away from eating an egg? I tell you, the good old egg is the foundation of daily life. Stop the first man you meet in the street and ask him which he’d sooner lose, his egg or his wife, and see what he says!

~ P.g. Wodehouse

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

~ Manfred Von Richthofen

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

~ Coco Chanel

I have a vanilla chai latte every morning, which I usually follow with an oatmeal raisin cookie and eggs for breakfast.

~ Dylan Lauren

I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.

~ Martha Stewart

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

~ Simon Kinberg

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

~ Cass Canfield

Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.

~ Dean Ornish