Top 1200 Silver Spoon Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away.

The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels I was working with at the time saying, "If this was any other period, I would probably say this is too fast, but because this is first time anybody has ever paid attention to Spoon, let's keep it on an upward trajectory."

We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.

Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don't feel the necessity to do or say anything.

I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

I don't think there's ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

'House of Cards' is full of hypocrites, some ashamed, many proud. There is no silver lining here, no appeal to a just system that is temporarily thwarted by corrupting forces.

Because I am southern, I love serving mint juleps in silver cups with a sprig of mint as guests enter.

It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.

I didn't have everything served to me on a silver platter during my career; unfair criticism helped me.

The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

I didn't even think that I could be competing for a gold medal; I was convinced I'd compete for a silver medal.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

I have the faith that even at my lowest points, there will come a silver lining through faith.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

I bought my wife Leighanne a silver BMW Z8 sports car one Christmas and tied it up with a big red bow in the driveway of our house.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

I've always tried to find a silver lining. I've always been a glass is half-full kind of person.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

It's always great to perform, make the podium, and yeah, gold, silver, and bronze, will also encourage other nations, Asia, America to do better.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.