Chickens Coming Home

Famous quotes containing the words chickens, coming and/or home:

    “Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
    What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
    At one fell swoop?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “There dwelt a man in faire Westmerland,
    Jonnë Armestrong men did him call,
    He had nither lands nor rents coming in,
    Yet he kept eight score men in his hall.”
    —Unknown. Johnie Armstrong (l. 1–4)

    “Harvey: Oh, you kids these days, I’m telling you. You think the only relationship a man and a woman can have is a romantic one.
    Gil: That sure is what we think. You got something better?
    Harvey: Oh, romance is very nice. A good thing for youngsters like you, but Helene and I have found something we think is more appropriate to our stage of life—companionship.
    Gil: Companionship? I’ve got a flea-bitten old hound at home who’ll give me that.”
    —Tom Waldman (d. 1985)