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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. -- T. S. Eliot
Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong. -- David Hyde Pierce
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. -- Anna Quindlen
There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it! -- Cliff Richard
Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon. -- Mitt Romney
'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best. -- Ricky Schroder
I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth -- David Burge
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -- E. M. Forster
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. -- George Bernard Shaw
You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring -- Sandra Lee
The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. -- Elton John
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves. -- Beth Moore
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! -- Van Morrison
Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way. -- James Randi
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. -- Samuel Johnson
You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do. -- Mick Jagger
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success. -- Kailash Kher
I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe. -- Ricky Schroder
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. -- Edward Lear
The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold. -- Guy Finley
I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive. -- Charles Bukowski
He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me. -- Jacques Prevert
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart. -- Diana Gabaldon
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. -- John Garamendi
Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best. -- Ricky Schroder
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy. -- Timbaland
To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes. -- Shay Mitchell
I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano. -- Tobe Hooper
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. -- William Least Heat-Moon
Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives. -- Paul Lieberstein
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
I didn't choose 'Silver Spoons'. I think my mom and agent chose it because at that time there was a lack of patience on some of the people that were in charge of my career. I think there was a big offer on the table, and I think they took it. -- Ricky Schroder
I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all. -- Jim Rash
Question your tea spoons. -- Georges Perec
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup... -- Stephen Sondheim
I've always had a strange fear of spoons. -- Liam Payne
Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons. -- Bergen Evans
It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife. -- Alanis Morissette
I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years -- Liam Payne
I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them. -- Ed Robertson
You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me! -- Sarah Dessen
Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. -- Bernard Malamud
The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels. -- Anne Sexton
Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did -- Theodore Zeldin
The sky was as blue as orange could get. I love sunsets at noon, and forks disguised as spoons. -- Jarod Kintz
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. -- Shirley Jackson
The greatest men that ever lived were not born with great spoons but were able to convert great tests to greatness -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. -- Gertrude Stein
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We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. -- Tug McGraw
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? -- George Carlin
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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men? -- Thomas Carlyle
What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent. -- Jose Ferreira
Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked. -- Anne Sexton
Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting. -- Anne Sexton
A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses. -- Ernest Hemingway
While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there. -- Eric Maisel
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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