Silver Spoons Quotes

• If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Spoons, Mouths

  Song: Substitute

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• 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

  Motivational, Hard Work, Character

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 11, 2014

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• 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

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Men

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• Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• 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?

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Spoons, Miserable

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• If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

  Jake T. Austin

  Love You, Home, Finding Yourself

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.

  George Ade

  Country, Pride, Cities

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• You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

  Sandra Lee

  Needs, Spoons, Silver

  FaceBook post by Sandra Lee from Jan 14, 2013

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• The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

  Elton John

  Children, Spoons, Silver

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• Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
  But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Use, Spoons, Silver

  Stephen Vincent Benet, “American Names”

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• I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

  Megyn Kelly

  Growing Up, Spoons, Mouths

  "Is Megyn on the way out? Kelly says she has 'great options' outside Fox News and a 'generous offer' to stay at the network as her longtime producer announces he is leaving her show" by Chris Spargo, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 19, 2016.

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• 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

  Yellowstone, Land, House

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• I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.

  Michael Audain

  Thinking, People, Spoons

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Garden

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

  Adrienne Bailon

  New York, Humble, Cities

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• During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

  Fred Thompson

  Ohio, President, Campaigns

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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

  Respect, Art, Men

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• One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Mouths, Spoons

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

  Harry Chapin

  Dad, Home, Cat

  Song: Cats In The Cradle

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• Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

  Mitt Romney

  Spoons, Silver, Born

  "Mitt Romney: ‘95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You’re Born In This Country’" By Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

  David Burge

  Spoons, Mouths, Silver

  "Presidential election enters dog days - US politics live", www.theguardian.com. 2012.

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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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spoons, Half, Saws

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• 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

  Kids, Cheesy, Looks

  "HuffPost Exclusive: Ricky Schroder Q&A". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2010.

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