Egg Quotes

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Good, True, Someone

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

Nothing, Often, She

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

Dreams, Time, Greatest

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
Mitt Romney

Life, Goes, Unite

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

Another, Making, Hen

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow

Patience, Everything, Key

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Through, Same, Start

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

Religion, Patriotism, Wars

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope

Learned, Vulgar, Roast

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Bjork

Sorry, Football, Trying

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie

Joy, Broken, Youth

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston

Future, Past, Present

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
Bob Hope

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper

Pleasure, Laid, Remorse

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Oliver Herford

Wanted, Ambition, Fan

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

Hand, Director, Golden

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

Trouble, Hand, Golden

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
Conan O'Brien

Early, Timing, Contract

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
Audre Lorde

Live, Fighting, Keep

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
Julia Child

Good, Power, Food

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.
Johnny Vegas

Rather, Makes, Bit

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Anderson

Matter, Born, Duck

I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
Vanessa Hudgens

White, Fruit, Oatmeal

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin

Experience, Him, Away

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

Sitting, China, Hen

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
Angela Carter

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
M. F. K. Fisher

Broken, Until, Private

I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is.
Jason Mraz

Once, While, Actually

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