From witty observations about chicken behavior to hilarious takes on their daily lives, these best chicken quotes will have you clucking with laughter, brighten your day and feathering your mood.
Best Chicken Quotes
We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken? S. Parkes Cadman
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good? Jonathan Safran Foer
If you know something well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buying chickens. Grandma Moses
One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs, and kids. Katie McGrath
I'm not really a chicken patty kinda girl. Rhoda Janzen
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. Nikita Khrushchev
If you have a rural property, you may have an outbuilding that can be converted into a chicken house. Christine Heinrichs
If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens. Penny Johnson Jerald
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde
Pride’s chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. Alexander Smith
You can’t really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It’s all just a matter of where you’re standing. Ted Naifeh
The difference between involvement and commitment is like an egg and ham breakfast the chicken was involved the pig was committed. Martina Navratilova
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Arnold H. Glasow
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. Margaret Thatcher
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. Aesop
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. Lemuel K. Washburn
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Helen Rowland
Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. Zora Neale Hurston
I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard. Charo
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. Joel Salatin
I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant. Sherman Alexie
I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens. Adriano Zumbo
The networks are not some chicken coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. Ralph Nader
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. Ta Nehisi Coates
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. Todd Barry
I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Susanna Moodie
The only things that succeed by sitting are chickens. Mustafa Dönmez
I wasn’t popular in the home office because I wasn’t chicken. I’m just a risk taker. I have gut instincts. Gary Gygax
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. Hattie McDaniel
It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear end of an ox. Japanese Proverb
When arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong. African Proverb
An overcrowded chicken farm produces fewer eggs. Chinese Proverb
What came first, The chicken or the egg? I don’t care, I eat both. House Pasha
Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea. Jessica Simpson
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Elizabeth Gilbert
Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house. Joyce Meyer
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, but the chicken breast will never cheat you. House Pasha
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken poop from chicken salad. Lyndon B. Johnson
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn’t understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. David Antin
I’ve never related to the work geek at all. It sounds much more horrible than a nerd like a freak biting a chicken’s head off in a sideshow. Jonathan Lethem
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do. Maya Angelou
My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother. Joel McCrea
I have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head. Jean Michel Basquiat
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. George M. Humphrey
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken. Ina Garten
I've never related to the work geek at all it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. Jonathan Lethem
Did you really just compare me to chicken wings? You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb. Rylann
The chickens have come home to roast. Jane Ace
I’ll change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! Dolly Parton