Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
Charles W. Chesnutt
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
Henry David Thoreau
If it's a nice, sunny day they may have already left the roost in the morning. In the afternoon they may not come back to the roost until 5:30 or so.
Harry Harnish
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
It's good that he's come back to the roost, everyone's pretty happy (about the decision).
John Newcombe
He has said for a long time that it's a national security issue, our reliance on foreign oil. We haven't built a new refinery in this country in two decades. I think what's happening here is things are coming home to roost.
Sean Conway
One of the great things about Berkshire Hathaway is it has one of the best balance sheets and cleanest accounting on the planet, ... And if anything has come out of this period of time, it's that all this sort of fundamental and flaky stuff that's gone on during the bull market has come home to roost.
David Winters
The sky turned black with the flapping wings of chickens coming home to roost.
James Callaghan
This area of the state has got to be a No. 1 priority if we're going to win in the future. Republicans rule this roost no more.
Jason Willett
The Republican governor and the Republican majority in the Legislature are unable to close that out. The fact they have failed to deal with public education, either education reforms or funding, has come home to roost.
Cal Jillson
I think Miller's chickens have finally come home to roost.
Barry Graham
The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken coming home to roost.
Lanny Davis
They never quack or make any noise, have a long incubation period and, in the wild, nest and roost in trees. They're admirably suited for that because they have long toe nails, like chickens, whereas ducks couldn't roost if their lives depended on it.
David Nellis
Vultures are one of the few bird species that are afraid of their own dead. But only when they're hung at the roost site. If you hang them anywhere else then they'll eat them.
Martin Lowney
The Romans perfected the acquisition of power. But they fought for survival. ... It was never written that they would rule the roost. They had to fight to get there.
Jonathan Stamp
Clearly, the ghosts of 9/11 have come home to roost. And you basically have many, many different filmmakers coming from all different areas of the filmmaking business addressing the issue, whether going into the past or dealing with the present. The Middle East and its discontent are front and center.
Anne Thompson
BA has raised business class fares by around 35 percent over the past two years, compared to 15 to 16 per cent by its European rivals. Now the chickens have come home to roost.
Matthew Owen
We had this wonderful anti-authoritarian attitude that made it possible for us to make new innovations and be more open-minded. Well, guess what? That comes home to roost, because it's not scientists in America who are anti-authoritarian, it's Americans in general.
Naomi Oreskes
Given the poor grades that Texas received ... it is amazing that student achievement continued to improve over the last decade. We must, however, be concerned that the chickens will eventually come home to roost and the current inadequately funded system will no longer be able to provide the gains in achievement that we have seen in the past.
Donna New Haschke
Crows are what are known as colonial roosters -- they roost in a colony at night. That area in the east end near Homewood is where all of our crows, from who knows how far away, go. At times there's 20,000 crows down there.
Brian Shema
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