Teaspoons Quotes

• No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

  Irene Thomas

  Water, Matter, Bottom

  Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”

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• Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

  Anne Lamott

  Butterfly, Perfect, Bird

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• Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Creativity, Ideas, Pouring

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 12, 2012

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• Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Emotional, Funny Harry Potter

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• I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Ocean, Past

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The Lord has an ocean to give. Don't come with teaspoons.

  Kalki Bhagavan

  Ocean, Giving, Lord

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• I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical ... just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Thinking, Oil, Lasts

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• What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Trying, Soft Drinks

  Judy Katschke, Charles M. Schulz, Peter LoBianco, Nick LoBianco (2002). “It's Time for School, Charlie Brown”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Grace, Thank God

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• I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kindness, Laughter, Generosity

  "Muhammad Ali...Recipe for Life". www.youtube.com. July 24, 2007.

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• Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Ocean, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2016

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• Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

  Lionel Shriver

  Holes

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.53, Counterpoint Press

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• Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

  Robert Anthony

  Ideas, Rivers, Cups

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

  Amy Carmichael

  Grace, Thank God

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• I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Wine, Glasses

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• One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

  Robert Fulghum

  Family, Mother, Hands

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• American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Ocean, Public Opinion, Opinion

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• Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

  Eric Schlosser

  Drinking, Kids, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Rivers, Details

  Abraham Lincoln, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1908). “The works of Abraham Lincoln ...”

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• It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Ocean, Water

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Sound, May, Creation

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• My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

  Sarah Kay

  Self Confidence, Mouths, Taste

  "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.

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• The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

  Laird Barron

  Light, Blood, Shining

  Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.

  Richard Armitage

  Ideas, Iraq, Special

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• The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

  Dodie Smith

  Pieces, Made, Feels

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.249, St. Martin's Griffin

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