Hatched Quotations

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

You know, you can never count your chickens before they're hatched with this game. We all know that. All it is, is two days of solid golf. I'm going to have to go out there and produce the same thing on the weekend.

We were out there in the Southern Ocean, feeling very insignificant in a big part of the planet, ... At any minute, another storm would sweep in. We hatched a plan: Spike and I would climb up and jury-rig the fitting. As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast. If the helmsman made a mistake while we were up on the mast, we'd crash down over the side with the entire rig on top of us.

We have expectations that have been hatched under an analog environment that are under the threat of a new form of regulation.

Every sponsor wants to be a part of it, every driver, every team, but there are only so many pieces of the pie. If I don't make the chase, will I feel like I failed my sponsor? Yes, I will, because I've been in the top 10 all year long until the last month. We were almost counting our chickens before they were hatched around June, July, so it's going to be hard for me to look my sponsors in the face if we don't make it.

They've been popping up a little earlier. I'd say about 10 percent have hatched already, at most. That's just a ballpark figure.

almost counting our chickens before they were hatched around June, July.

I view this as putting smaller portfolios into incubators to wait for them to be hatched into higher revenue accounts, ... But lost accounts is precisely the risk that Merrill Lynch runs with this strategy.

You've got to educate the public to know they're short-changing themselves if they're taking home the biggest fish. And every time they put one back, they're ensuring thousands of little bass will be hatched down the road.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different.