Chickens Coming Home

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

    Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Gloucester. Nor further, sir, a man may rot even here.
    Edgar. What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
    Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
    Ripeness is all.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Our sympathies in Massachusetts are not confined to New England; though we may be estranged from the South, we sympathize with the West. There is the home of the younger sons, as among the Scandinavians they took to the sea for their inheritance.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)