Tea Quotes - Page 24

• I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

  Trevor Baylis

  Fall, Tired, Night

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• No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

  Allison Pearson

  Girly, Dog, Men

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• Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Years, Want

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• Leave your front door and your back door open.
  Allow your thoughts to come and go.
  Just don't serve them tea.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Doors, Comes And Goes, Fronts

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• To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Lonely, Simple, Too Much

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• To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny, Party, Boston

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Together, Sugar, Envelopes

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• We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Needs, Helping

  "Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

  Peter Kay

  Biscuits, Dip, Break

  "Mum Wants A Bungalow". Stand-up comedy tour by Peter Kay, 2003.

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• I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Shoes, White, Guy

  Celia Rivenbark (2006). “Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments”, p.81, Macmillan

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• The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.

  John Golden

  Education, Teacher, School

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• When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

  Sarah Zettel

  Summer, College, London

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• I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

  George Harrison

  Records, Chaos, Pot

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• In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.

  Glenn Turner

  Fun, Coffee, Believe

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• Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

  John Steakley

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Astrology

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• Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

  Allison Glock

  Crazy, Issues, Signatures

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• Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Wine, Mean

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• If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
  were to bump into each other along the road
  and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
  I think we all know
  they would treat one another far different and far better
  than a lot of their followers would.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Thinking, Cups

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• It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

  J. Maarten Troost

  War, College, Development

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• Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.

  Hayley Williams

  Neighbor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea

  Billy Bragg

  Men, Fire, Breakfast

  Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Tea Leaves, Attention, Littles

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• You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Safe, Cups, Resurrection

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.292, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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