Top 66 Spoon Quotes

I’m brilliant at cooking my stepmother’s scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon… The book has been thoroughly tested, and it’s very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Even when I got ₹500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It’s the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn’t born with a silver spoon.

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.

Well, eating is very similar to eating on Earth. Of course, there is no gravity, so your food does float around. So you have to be a little bit more careful that it doesn’t go flying off your fork or spoon.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

I know what hard times are like. I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I’ve had struggles.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve obliterated my diet with a binge session. One second, I’m floating along just fine, four days into a successful low-carb lifestyle. The next? I’m standing alone in a dark kitchen, eating a sleeve of Ritz crackers and cream cheese with a spoon.

The Honours List is accused of being too top heavy, rewarding those born with a silver spoon in their mouth – as if hereditary titles and accidents of birth are incompatible with democracy. But if you stop to think about it, what is more democratic than nature?

I won’t step foot inside a new eatery without some strong recommendations or after consulting a site like Yelp or Urban Spoon.

Everyone can guess what ‘Corn Flakes’ tastes like, even if you’ve never had them. But what, pray tell, does ‘High School Musical’ or ‘Spider-Man’ cereal possibly taste like? In this late era, we have reached the ultimate deracination between product image and what actually sits on our spoon.

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of ‘stuff’ but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

I wouldn’t say I grew up with a silver spoon. Yeah, I was very fortunate. I have a great family.

If I’m honest, my heart and my belly are saying that you’re more likely to find me in a greasy spoon than a pop-up, but some of this pop-up stuff is great!

Gag me with a spoon!

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

I wasn’t exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

Ask people to pitch in – hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.

I was just taught very early that if I didn’t solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.’

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That’s when it hit me what an international city this is.

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

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

Of course I don’t think any of the past will go away. The thing is, with me and Stephen, for many years, I put every spoon of food into his mouth, dressed him, and bathed him. You do not forget that experience.

The Rice Dream rice milk is like a savior in my life, and I couldn’t live without it. The Earth Balance soy butter is so good you could eat it with a spoon.

People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual – an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for dessert. I find cold soups very refreshing. I serve them in cups rather than in bowls, usually, and let people sip them. You don’t really need a spoon for soups that are all one consistency.

Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children’s party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

I could see it wasn’t going to be easy. I couldn’t give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be.

Sometimes you have to spoon feed filmmakers to let them know ‘I am capable of this.’

Most of us weren’t born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.

The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who’s looking at themselves in the back of a spoon.

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.

I love my story. I wouldn’t change it. It gives it character. It’s never been on a silver spoon.

My mother fed me with a spoon until I was 6 years old.

I’ve been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

I used to eat the batter raw. My sister would make it and I’d lick the bowl and then I started to get it off the shelf and whip it up and eat it with a spoon.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!

When I’m working and I need to taste food, I use a small spoon or eat a small piece, rather than wolfing down an entire piece of cake.

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

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, ‘That looks like cat vomit.’ And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it’s flat.

People believed I was fed with a silver spoon in my mouth, but I fought for everything that I have.

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.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

I’m fortunate for where I come from because even though I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth, it allowed me to appreciate any little thing that I have.

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

I don’t know if you saw, in the first ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ Jack Dee was in it, and tried to escape by digging a hole with a spoon. That just made me think: that approach would be perfect on ‘Taskmaster’ – trying to achieve something impossible with something mundane.

I think what I came from and what I saw molded me into a certain person. Nothing was ever wrapped or a silver spoon, so I don’t think I would know how to live and I don’t think I’d want to live if it wasn’t a grind.

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.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn’t have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn’t have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

Even if you are born with a silver spoon, you have to work hard. I mean, you could be offered films on a platter, but if you don’t get up in the morning and learn your lines, it is not going to work.

I wasn’t born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.

I was eating cereal on my couch when I saw the first commercial for ‘The Wiz’ on TV. I dropped the spoon and the tears came out of nowhere.