Egg Quotes

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. (William Cowper)
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. View quote
James Allen
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. View quote
Mark Twain
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was - like eating an egg without salt. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life. View quote
E. B. White
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. View quote
Björk
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. (Walter Benjamin)
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. View quote
Dave Barry
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. View quote
Oliver Herford
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake. View quote
Langston Hughes
The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you. View quote
Robert Jordan
[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg. View quote
Sarah Silverman
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. View quote
Angela Carter
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous? Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat. View quote
Cassandra Clare
With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open-a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road-and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed. (Aravind Adiga)
Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action. View quote
Nhat Hanh
What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men. View quote
Jack Vance
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. View quote
John Cheever
Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see. View quote
Bob Dylan