Top 122 Cupboard Quotes & Sayings

In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.

My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.

I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

I try to stick to the natural peanut butter, and I have several jars in the cupboard. I'll put it on oatmeal, rice cakes, chocolate... I just love it.

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I could take out one piece of work to look at.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

I lived for a little while in a place where the kitchen was a cupboard on the landing.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?

Money is great for paying the bills and putting food in the cupboard and in the fridge. But winning titles is different altogether. It's what you do, it's your living.

I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.

Lipstick just makes me feel like I can't talk, like I am going to suffocate - like I've been locked in a cupboard and can't get out. I'm so aware of it.

A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

I would steal a lot of saris from my nani's cupboard.

Let’s see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy.” It was a broom cupboard.

When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.

Many Euro-Asian homes have a cupboard devoted to Chinese ingredients. The smell cannot be contained and it's my earliest memory. I both object to and love it.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

I went through a stage of wearing quite lairy trainers. I had all these trainers in gold or pink or silver. I look at them now in the cupboard - what was I thinking? Such an awful idea.

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.