Breaking Eggs Quotes

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

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  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart   Food   Eggs  

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  1894

• I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

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  Robert Moses

  Ghetto   Eggs   People  

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

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  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs   Broken   Former  

  "Statecraft".

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• Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

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  Maximilien Robespierre

  Eggs   Breaking Eggs   Made  

  1465

• Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

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  Lance Morrow

  Hero   Ukraine   Eggs  

  4865

• There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

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  Dave Barry

  Funny   Science   Eggs  

  2754

• If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

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  Hermann Goring

  Taken   Eggs   People  

  1251

• You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls

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  Margaret Thatcher

  Naked   Balls   Clue  

  4382

• You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.

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  Stephen Colbert

  Eggs   Breaking Eggs  

  1692

• It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

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  Jonathan Swift

  Eggs   Gulliver's Travels   Break  

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Lilliput" ch. 4 (1726)

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• After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

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  Harris L Coulter

  Baby   Eggs   Vaccines  

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