Chickens Coming Home

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

    my Uncle Sol’s farm
    failed because the chickens
    ate the vegetables so
    my Uncle Sol had a
    chicken farm till the
    skunks ate the chickens when
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)

    Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively, who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call ‘our feelings for someone,’ but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.
    Terri Apter (20th century)

    do not sleep
    he wants to climb out of the toilet when you sit on it
    and make a home in the embarrassed hair do not sleep
    he wants you to walk into him as into a dark fire.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)