Tea Party Quotes

• 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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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Broken, Tea

  "Paul thumps Grayson; Conway edges Mongiardo" by Jack Brammer, www.kentucky.com. May 19, 2010.

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• This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!

  Lewis Carroll

  Party, Tea, Trying

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.69, Penguin

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  If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

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• Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tea, Buns, World

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• Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Bamboo

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing

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• Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea Drinking, People, Fine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Tea, Chinese, Three

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.326, A&C Black

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• We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Prayer, School, People

  "O’Donnell So Fervently Pro-Truth That She Wouldn’t Lie To Nazis Asking If She Were Hiding Jews In Her Home". "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, thinkprogress.org. 1998.

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• Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Tea

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing

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• Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Cups Of Tea

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.

  Sharron Angle

  Girl, Party, Pregnancy

  "Sharron Angle’s Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade". Interview, www.americanthinker.com. July 8, 2010.

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• People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator...

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, People, Republican

  YouTube Chanel "Harry Reid"/ "Angle: Unemployed are 'Spoiled'; It's not my job to fight for Nevadans' jobs", www.youtube.com. June 18, 2010.

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• There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, Intelligent, Design

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 24, 2011.

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• We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tea, Week, Made

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4452, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

  Sydney Smith

  Tea, Thank God, World

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Tone, Wonderland

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

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• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Party, Men

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• I am not afraid of anybody.   This is a tough game.   You can't be intimidated.   You can't be frightened.   And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Games, Tea

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• In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will "take our country back" from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

  Matt Taibbi

  Meaningful, Country, Party

  "The Truth About the Tea Party". www.rollingstone.com. September 28, 2010.

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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Long

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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• American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Science, Animal, Brain

  "Is Cloning Monkeys Morally Wrong?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2007.

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• You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

  Christine O'Donnell

  Monkeys, Evolution, Myth

  "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, (ABC), October 15, 1998.

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• They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

  Sharron Angle

  Tired, People, Calling

  "GOP Senate hopeful Sharron Angle is counting on conservative credentials" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. March 20, 2010.

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