Tea Quotes - Page 25

• Sometimes I feel like a complete kid when I'm running around with my friends being stupid for a week, and then sometimes I just want to sit in my house and sip tea and watch old movies like I'm 60.

  Kendall Jenner

  Running, Stupid, Kids

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• I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

  Tim Allen

  Daughter, Mother, Party

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

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• Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

  Eric Alterman

  Party, Class, World

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama”, p.156, Nation Books

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• If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

  Tori Amos

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Thinking

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• Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Enough Already, Facts

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. August 14, 2011.

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• The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Rose, Agendas

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• I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

  Mario Batali

  Sexy, Sweet, Flower

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• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Broken, Add, Mexico

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• I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

  Mary J. Blige

  Singing, Needs, Honey

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• I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

  John Bonham

  Drinking, Tired, Blow

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• If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.

  Jo Brand

  Differences, People, Cups

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• England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

  Bill Bryson

  Ice Cream, Sides, England

  Bill Bryson (2015). “Notes from a Small Island”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.

  Herman Cain

  Party, Media, Years

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain Unveils Job Creation Plan". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2011.

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• The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Thinking

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• I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, White, Government

  "Interview with Former President Jimmy Carter". "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, Thinking, Race

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

  William J. Clinton

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  Gail Collins

  Party, People, Tiny

  "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 01, 2010.

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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Humble, Organization

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  William Congreve

  Scandal, Ancient, Gallery

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 1

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• But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

  Cindy Crawford

  Beach, Morning, House

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• The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

  Jim DeMint

  Party, Politician, Tea Party

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

  Jim DeMint

  Party, People, Credit

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• The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Giving Up, Drinking

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