Quotes About Silver Spoons

#1. 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

#2. His mother was a good and fearful Lutheran, who gave away both time and money, visiting hospitals for the poor, organising bazaars and clothing collections. But she ate from Meissen porcelain with silver spoons. There were hideous inconsistencies.

A.S. Byatt

#3. 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

#4. Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Stephen Vincent Benet

#5. 'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

Ricky Schroder

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.

Simon Blackburn

#11. The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren't mine, that won't ever be mine. It's all I've ever known.
I wish it wasn't.

Elizabeth Scott

#12. Imagination is no Joke, But a Wish

Jan Jansen

#13. Give until tears stream down your eyes.

Kong Hee

#14. Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

Wayne Dyer

#15. Bronson always said that, of all the girls, Louisa was most like her mother, and he didn't mean it as a compliment. Both were mercurial, passionate, willful. Louisa had seen despair like Abba's from the inside. She had inherited it the way some daughters came into a silver tray or a set of spoons.

Kelly O'Connor McNees

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

Michael Audain

#17. There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.

Joe Calzaghe

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

Sandra Lee

#19. Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Mitt Romney

#20. Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Oliver Goldsmith

#22. 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

#23. I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

Paul Van Dyk