“Aye, they be eggs alright, just not from thunder. They be Cinderflare's eggs. They be all broken 'cause the young'ns hatched a few months ago.”
“The rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon -- The Rule of Void”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]”
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”