Sandra Lee
Chef
"You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring"
Spoons quotes
Spoons
96 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?"
Van Morrison
Singer-Songwriter
"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence."
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"My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command."
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"I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life."
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"A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar."
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"Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel."
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"Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place."
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"Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover."
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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
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"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it."
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"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
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"Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?"
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"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."
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"A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise."
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