Quotes and Sayings About Eggs
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One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.
-- Adam Rapp -
There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.
-- Adam Rex -
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!
-- Adela Popescu -
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
-- Agatha Christie -
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.
-- Alasdair Gray -
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
-- Aldous Huxley -
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
-- Alexander Pope -
I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.
-- Alice Temperley -
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
-- Alton Brown -
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
-- Andre Breton -
Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
-- Angela Carter -
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
-- Ann Richards -
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
-- Anna Freud -
Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.
-- Annie Proulx -
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
-- Anthony Eden -
I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.
-- Apolo Ohno -
If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard -
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 -
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.
-- Aristid Lindenmayer -
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
-- Aristophanes -
Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
-- Armando Iannucci