150+ Inspiring Chicken Quotes You Must Read For Instagram

Did you know chickens are the third most commonly kept type of pet in the U.S. after fish and dogs? Chickens can make great companions, but they are not easy pets to keep. They need plenty of attention, a cozy enclosure, fresh water and food every day, and a warm space to sleep at night.

Keeping chickens also requires some research beforehand to learn about their needs and habits before you commit. If you have chickens (or are thinking of getting them), then you’ll love these chicken quotes! They’re perfect for anyone who loves these fascinating feathered friends as much as we do here at Animal Facts.

Read on for more information about keeping chickens as pets, along with some inspirational and uplifting quotes about chickens:

“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.”

— Tibetan Proverbs

“If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it.”

– Unknown

“Then it will be managed – like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.”

— Ted Nugent

“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown.”

– Unknown

“There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”

— Paul Simon

“Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.”

— Unknown

“Am I eating chicken or tuna?”

— Jessica Simpson

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.”

– Larry Mcmurtry

“Eating chicken quote No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass. No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.”

– African Proverbs

“One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn’t make any sense.”

– Patrik Baboumian

“I’m not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. And chicken. But not fish ’cause that’s disgusting! How do you know when fish goes bad? It smells like fish either way! ‘Hey this smells like a dumpster, lets eat it!'”

– Jim Gaffigan

“Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”

– Zora Neale Hurston

“Eating chicken quote Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”

– Alfred A. Montapert

“Don’t count your chickens before they egg.”

– Ross O’Donovan

“Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!”

– Anne Sexton

“I don’t think I’ve ever bench-pressed anything in my life.”

– Unknown

“Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I’m not skinny now – I’m spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet – mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.”

– Nick Antosca

“I love eating it – grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.”

– Derrick Rose

“I’m cool with whatever. I’ll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.”

– Charles Oakley

“Eating chicken quote An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

– Unknown

“Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice.”

— Maurice Sendak

“I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring – go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.”

— Unknown

“My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.”

— George Weah

“Eating chicken quote Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.”

— Chinese Proverbs

“I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say ‘We eat the chicken now!’ but the magus had seen that I was considering it.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

“I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.”

– Jenifer Lewis

“We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we’ve got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald’s isn’t only about the food. It’s about the prices, it’s about the way we eat.”

— Jim Cantalupo

“Eating chicken quote The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo. The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo. ”

– Julia Child

“The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.”

– Evo Morales

“Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.”

– Joe Queenan

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

– Arnold H. Glasow

“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”

– Maya Angelou

“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”

– Henry Ford

“When you roast a chicken perfectly, there’s nothing more delicious.”

– Marco Pierre White

“I can’t really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.”

– Louis Tomlinson

“My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.”

– Tom Watson

“The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.”

– Yuval Noah Harari

“I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog – or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.”

– Peter Dinklage

“I had eel at a sushi bar once; it’s disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, ‘That looks safe.’ It wasn’t.”

– Chris Evans

“I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets – whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.”

– David Chang

“I’ve always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don’t have to think about it to know it’s delicious.”

– Alber Elbaz

“I was a hard-workin’ little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin’ cotton, shockin’ grain, cuttin’ wheat, loadin’ wheat, choppin’ cotton, cleanin’ chicken houses, milkin’ cows, plowin’.”

– Jimmy Dean

“Trevor Murdoch is mad, bad and dangerous. He’s the only man I know that can strap a bucket of fried chicken on his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia.”

– Jim Cornette

“It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.”

– Frank Perdue

“The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.”

– Martina Navratilova

“Everyone loves fried chicken, Don’t ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.”

– Nora Ephron

“Snoop Dogg eats terrible. That’s another reason I had to leave him. I would have been dead of a heart attack. He literally eats at 7-11. That’s where he does his grocery shopping or it’s Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, or it’s Denny’s delivery. There’s not a piece of salad or vegetable within two miles of this dude.”

– Tyrus

“We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers’ lives and the communities in which we serve.”

– S. Truett Cathy

“Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.”

– Helen Rowland

“I love the smell of fried chicken.”

– Giancarlo Esposito

“I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I’d never been able to do before!”

– Bob Mortimer

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright

“I could see it wasn’t going to be easy. I couldn’t give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be.”

– Colonel Sanders

“I only eat fish – no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.”

– Jack LaLanne

“A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you’ll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.”

– Neal Barnard

“I eat fish, chicken, vegetables and other healthier foods. I do love a great steak.”

– Bill Engvall

“I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken’s vote.”

– Joan Rivers

“I grew up in Chicago with a single mother. I’m the youngest of six kids, and my older siblings are much older than me. When your siblings are that much older, you never get to ride in the front seat of the car, you never get the chicken breast.”

– Mellody Hobson

“The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.”

– Gayle King

“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea.'”

– Jessica Simpson

“If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.”

– Herschel Walker

“Chicken and waffles! I’m obsessed with those.”

– Sadie Sink

“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.”

– Gary Larson

“I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time.”

– Isabella Rossellini

“If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.”

– Dolly Parton

“There is an old story that says that Julia Child dropped a chicken on the floor when she was filming ‘The French Chef.’ And then – that, in fact, is not true. She just, you know, dropped some potatoes she was trying to flip in a pan.”

– Kathleen Flinn

“When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what’s the big deal? Relax.”

– Jacques Pepin

“Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.”

– Matt Gaetz

“I’m half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house – so that’s like a very Latin staple. It’s just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can’t wait for my rice and beans and chicken.”

– Victoria Justice

“I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring – go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.”

– Adam Driver

“The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They’re banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world’s trying to get some fat to eat, and we’re trying to ban it from our diet.”

– Jim Harrison

“I have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.”

– Jean-Michel Basquiat

“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”

– Ina Garten

“One of my favorites is chilaquiles. It’s corn tortilla chips in a simple, brothy tomato sauce with a little chile for heat. It’s wonderfully homey. It has irresistible crispy bits and I love to eat it. And you can play around with it – add chicken, sliced red onions, or all these different things that can easily dress it up.”

– Rick Bayless

“There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’ Barbecue is going low and slow.”

– Guy Fieri

“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”

– Paul Simon

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”

– Chuck Palahniuk

“A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.”

– Henny Youngman

“Left wing, chicken wing, it don’t make no difference to me.”

– Woody Guthrie

“My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.”

– Magic Johnson

“Food feeds both the body and soul – there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom’s secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you’re sick.”

– Michael Mina

“When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol.”

– Chuck Norris

“My favourite meal is probably chicken with penne pasta and pesto.”

– Jordan Henderson

“Toum is a staple of Lebanese cuisine, and more than just another condiment. This garlic sauce is great for stirring into soups and pasta, marinating chicken, and tossing with roasted vegetables; it adds an energetic punch of garlic to anything without requiring the hassle of peeling and mincing.”

– Sohla El-Waylly

“I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”

– Henry IV

“There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.”

– Thomas Gibson

“I love roast chicken, juicy summer tomatoes, and carrot cake slathered with tangy cream-cheese frosting.”

– Samin Nosrat

“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!”

– Anne Tyler

“Our motto is we respect and honor the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.”

– Joel Salatin

“Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.”

– Mike Ditka

“When I’m doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it’s tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That’s it. For dinner it’s either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.”

– Sylvester Stallone

“Eating chicken quote People who love to eat are always the best people. People who love to eat are always the best people.

– Julia Child

“I only eat fish – no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.”

– Jack LaLanne

“Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.”

– Brad Marchand

“We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?”

– S. Parkes Cadman

“If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buying chickens.”

– Grandma Moses

“Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”

– Brad Pitt

“If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.”

– Nikita Khrushchev

“If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens.”

– Penny Johnson Jerald

“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.”

– Oscar Wilde

“You can’t really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It’s all just a matter of where you’re standing.”

– Ted Naifeh

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

– Arnold H. Glasow

“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”

– Aesop

“Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.”

– Lemuel K. Washburn

“Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”

– Zora Neale Hurston

“The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.”

– Joel Salatin

“I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.”

– Adriano Zumbo

“I haven’t checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.”

– Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only things that succeed by sitting are chickens.”

– Mustafa Dönmez

“I wasn’t popular in the home office because I wasn’t chicken. I’m just a risk-taker. I have gut instincts.”

– Gary Gygax

“It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear end of an ox.”

– Japanese Proverb

“When arguing with a chicken, a grain of corn is always wrong.”

– African Proverb

“The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.”

– Ralph Nader

“What came first, The chicken or the egg? I don’t care, I eat both.”

– Gouse Pasha

“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea.’”

– Jessica Simpson

“I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“People will hate you, rate you, shake you, but the chicken breast will never cheat you.”

– Gouse Pasha

“Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken poop from chicken salad.”

– Lyndon B. Johnson

“My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn’t understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.”

– David Antin

“I’ve never related to the work geek at all. It sounds much more horrible than a nerd—like a freak biting a chicken’s head off in a sideshow.”

– Jonathan Lethem

“I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous—that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.”

– Maya Angelou

“My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.”

– Joel McCrea

“I have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.”

– Jean-Michel Basquiat

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”

– Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”

– Ina Garten

“Did you really just compare me to chicken wings? You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb.”

– Rylann

“I’ll change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot!”

– Dolly Parton’s

“We all like chicken.”

– Malcolm X

“I’m not really a chicken-patty kinda girl.”

– Rhoda Janzen

“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”

– Sherman Alexie

“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”

– Susanna Moodie

“Do not put all your eggs in one basket.”

– Warren Buffett

“No one likes rubbery chicken.”

– Guy Fieri

“Left-wing. Right-wing. Chicken wing.”

– Woody Guthrie

“The chickens have come home to roast.”

– Jane Ace

“An overcrowded chicken farm produces fewer eggs.”

– Chinese Proverb

“Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.”

– Charles W. Chesnutt

“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”

– Samuel Butler

“I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.”

– E. B. White

“Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken?”

– Train

“It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.”

– Frank Perdue

“If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens.”

– Grandma Moses

“One day, I’d love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs, and kids.”

– Katie McGrath

“Life is the ongoing effort to live. Some people make it look easy. Chickens do not.”

– Jackie Polzin

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright

“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets, Papa would say she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”

– Katherine Dunn

“I haven’t changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I’ve had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.”

– Charo

“Life was just a tire swing—blackberry pickin’, eatin’ fried chicken.”

– Jimmy Buffett

“It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.”

– Warren E. Burger

“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”

– Seymour Cray

“I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the newborn sheep.”

– Joseph Mawle

“Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.”

– Joyce Meyer

“When life gives you 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have a chicken biryani to smile.”

– Gouse Pasha

“There are days when I am envious of my hens, when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.”

– Barbara Kingsolver

“I have the right to life, liberty, and chicken wings.”

– Mindy Kaling

“My mom used to call us ‘free-range kids,’ like free-range chickens. We roamed the countryside.”

– William Moseley

“Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.”

– Gouse Pasha

“One of the greatest birds I’ve ever had is called a ‘Turducken.’ A chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. That’s one that I love. I’ve done it a couple of times.”

– Guy Fieri

“Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?”

– Jonathan Safran Foer

“The difference between involvement and commitment is like an egg-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved—the pig was committed.”

– Martina Navratilova

“Eat fried chicken every day, as the angels go sailing by.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

“I always get so excited cooking chicken wings.”

– Jourdan Dunn

“If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he’s gotta get greasy.”

– Unknown

“Eating chicken quote Eating and reading are two pleasures than combine admirably. Eating and reading are two pleasures than combine admirably.

— C. S. Lewis

“I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it’s by surprise.”

– Ludacris

“All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.”

— Shannen Doherty

“I have mostly been eating chicken wings. I only stick to things I can spell.”

— Boo Weekley

“Eating chicken quote One should eat to live, not live to eat. One should eat to live, not live to eat.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don’t manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven’t a clue.”

– Joe Bageant

“I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I’ll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I’ll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.”

– Sprague Grayden

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