We’ve collected the best Spoon Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Chrissy Teigen, John Maeda, Shanice Williams, Mick Jagger, Edward Lear. Use them as an inspiration.
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High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.
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It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don’t use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.
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Just because someone doesn’t have a silver spoon in their mouth doesn’t mean they can’t be highly intelligent.
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I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
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I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.
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There is a difference between a consumer – who passively receives the information that they are spoon fed – and a citizen – who engages with society, asks questions, does research, and works towards making a difference in their neighborhood, city, and country.
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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.
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Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he’s a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.
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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?
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I won’t step foot inside a new eatery without some strong recommendations or after consulting a site like Yelp or Urban Spoon.
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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.
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Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend.
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