Egg Laying Quotes

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.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

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.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.

I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.