Top 1056 Nest Egg Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

I prefer a home-made breakfast of brown bread and egg whites.

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.

My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.

I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

Have you ever heard of a club captain who's a bad egg? Me neither.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

My go-to, I eat a lot of boiled eggs, egg whites.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

If you ask my dad, I'm always the person that found the little bird out of the nest and is trying to put it back or take care of it.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

'Cuckoo's Nest' came along, and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.

Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

I'm a vegetarian, but now, on my doctor's orders, I have begun eating egg white.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

You know, I'm an egg-heady scientist with a large beard and like Birkenstocks.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.