“To believe that employing consumer methods in the church will produce spiritually mature Christians is delusional thinking akin to expecting a dog to hatch from a chicken's egg.”

“Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

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

Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller

“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”

Hans Christian Andersen The Ugly Duckling

“The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.”

Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister

“I still cannot understand how a party that is supposed to defend free markets supports a small cartel that artificially increases the price of milk, chicken and eggs for millions of Canadian consumers.”

Maxime Bernier (1963) Canadian politician

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)