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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. -- Henry Rollins
London is a roost for every bird. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. -- Arthur Miller
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. -- Malcolm X
If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost. -- Cherry Jones
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her. -- Tony Scott
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost. -- Jeremiah Wright
My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost. -- Francis Ford Coppola
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost. -- Lynn Johnston
There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost. -- Rufus Wainwright
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. -- Bradley Whitford
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. -- David Attenborough
The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go. -- Shilpa Shetty
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. -- Susanna Moodie
Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. -- Aesop
Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost. -- Robert Southey
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house. -- Douglas MacArthur
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost. -- David Cronenberg
A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost. -- Lucius Beebe
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost! -- Jeremiah Wright
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind. -- Ray LaMontagne
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years. -- Miles Franklin
One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost. -- David Stockman
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind -- Ray LaMontagne
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg. -- Paul Krugman
Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home. -- Leonard Tourney
Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot. -- Mitchell Burgess

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